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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. Campus police are a type of _______ district police force - and many of these larger forces have been state certified as law enforcement agencies with general arrest powers.






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






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






6. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.






7. 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 _________.






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






9. 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.






10. In 2001 - the US Supreme Court held in Atwater v. Lago Vista that the 4th amendment did not ________ warrantless arrests for minor offenses.






11. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






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






13. 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






14. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






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






16. 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.






17. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






24. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






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






26. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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 ______.






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






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






36. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






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






38. Officers may feel that the rules are there to catch them out and that the system mistrusts them. This may encourage officers to work at a deliberately _____ pace.






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






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






41. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






42. 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






43. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. 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.







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