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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.






2. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.






3. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe






4. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






5. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






6. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






7. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






8. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






9. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






10. This is widely recognized as a police role - though they do share the burden with other institutions such as schools and _____________.






11. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






12. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






13. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.






14. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






15. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine






16. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






17. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






18. The first landmark case that forms the foundation of the exclusionary rule is the US Supreme court decision of _____ v US (1914).






19. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.






20. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.






21. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.






22. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






23. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






24. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






25. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.






26. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






27. A concurrent sentence is one that is served at the __________ as another sentence.






28. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






29. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






30. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






31. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are






32. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.






33. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc






34. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.






35. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






36. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






37. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






38. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






39. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.






40. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






41. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






42. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.






43. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.






44. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






45. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






46. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






47. Apart from police corruption - another form of police deviance is ____________ deviance.






48. This describes the Pendleton Act. This was a big step in the government becoming the huge _____________ it is today.






49. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.






50. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.







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