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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






2. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






3. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






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






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






8. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






9. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.






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






11. Campus police is probably the most important example of the special district police force. The also participate in the ____ program.






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






13. 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.






14. 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 _________.






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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






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






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






22. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine






23. 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.






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






25. Their perception of the amount of danger faced in their jobs results in the development of constant __________ of people






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






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






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






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






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






31. 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 ______.






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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






46. Prospective police officers are trained at police _________ - with the average pre-service training program lasting about 1000 hours.






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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.







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