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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. When a 911 call comes in - the operator answers it - makes a decision whether to send out a patrol car and then informs the dispatcher who then communicates the details to the ______ officer.






2. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






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. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






8. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






9. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.






10. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea






11. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






12. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






13. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






14. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






15. It is interesting to note that the city of Detroit is the only state in which blacks rate the police force more ______ than their white counterparts.






16. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






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






18. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






19. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






20. 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 __________.






21. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






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






23. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






24. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






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






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






27. Apart from reducing crime - the mission of community policing is to _______ the trend of the negative public perception of the police






28. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






29. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






30. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






31. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






32. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






33. The nature of police work also promotes deviant activities because officers are often offered ______ - they are regularly unsupervised and so think they can get away with it and fed on a diet of illegality may succumb to criminality too.






34. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






35. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






39. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.






40. 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.






41. 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 ________.






42. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.






43. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






44. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






45. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






46. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






47. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.






48. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






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






50. 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.







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