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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






2. The exclusionary rule relates to illegally seized evidence. In this case - the police searched and seized personal effects as well as incriminating evidence from the Defendant's house without a warrant. On the basis of this evidence - the Defendant w






3. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.






4. 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.






5. 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.






6. 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 __________.






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






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






12. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






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






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






15. 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 _________.






16. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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






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






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






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






27. Research has revealed that in about 80% of such situations - no formal action - such as _______ was necessary.






28. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.






29. 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.






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






31. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






45. 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 ________.






46. 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.






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






48. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






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. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.