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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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.






2. 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






3. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






7. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






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






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






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






11. 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






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






13. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






14. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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






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






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






22. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






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






24. 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.






25. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






26. 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






27. 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.






28. 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 _________.






29. 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 _______.






30. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






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






46. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






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






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






49. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.






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







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