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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






2. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






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






4. Parens patriae is Latin for 'the ______ as parent'.






5. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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






10. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






11. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






12. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






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






14. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.






15. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






16. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






17. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






18. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.






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






20. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






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






22. 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.






23. In US v. __________ (1950) - the US Supreme Court ruled that a warrantless search upon a lawful arrest was permitted as long as it was reasonable given the circumstances.






24. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






25. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






26. 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.






27. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.






28. The next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






29. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






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






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






32. 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.






33. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.






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






35. 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.






36. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






37. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.






38. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment






39. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






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






41. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






42. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






43. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.






44. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






45. 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






46. 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 ________.






47. 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.






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






49. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






50. 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.






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