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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






9. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






10. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






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 next most critical factor that impacts on PCR after race and ethnicity is ___.






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. When considering detective productivity and _____________ - more important than the number of arrests is the quality of those arrests.






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






21. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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.






30. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






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






32. 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.






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






34. 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






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






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






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






38. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






39. In this case - the police applied for and obtained a search warrant from a magistrate for the Defendant's homes. Drugs were found there and the Defendant convicted. He appealed on the grounds that the original affidavit drawn up to obtain the search






40. Some police departments may have a separate detective unit with further specialized units such as homicide and vice. ________ ones will have a single department to handle all cases or no department at all.






41. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






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






43. 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.






44. 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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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






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







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