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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
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1. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. Community policing is widely implemented in the US today but critics are concerned that the police role of crime control has been hijacked - the police are increasingly getting involved at a political level and ________________ will lead to the loss






6. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






7. 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.






8. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.






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






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






11. Good faith means that when the police act with the honest belief that they are following proper rules. According to the ruling in US v. Leon - when officers have acted in good faith reliance on a warrant - the evidence will not be excluded even if th






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






13. 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.






14. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.






15. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police






16. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






17. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






18. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.






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






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






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






22. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






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






24. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






25. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






26. 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.






27. 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






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






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






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






31. 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.






32. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






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






34. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






35. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.






36. The Defendant was _________ arrested in his office - which consisted of a single room. The search was valid and reasonable given the circumstances of the arrest and small space of the area he was arrested in.






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






38. 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.






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






40. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.






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






42. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.






43. 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 ______.






44. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search






45. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






46. 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.






47. 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.






48. 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






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






50. 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.






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