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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go






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






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






15. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






16. 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






17. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.






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






19. 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.






20. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






21. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






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






23. 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






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






25. In the 1950s training for police officers consisted mainly of firearm skill development but over the years - classroom training has emphasized criminal __________.






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






27. 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






28. 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






29. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.






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






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






32. 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.






33. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






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






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






36. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






37. 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






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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 __________.






42. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _






43. 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 ________.






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






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






46. 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.






47. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.






48. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






49. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






50. 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.