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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






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






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






4. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.






5. 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






6. 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.






7. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






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






9. 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.






10. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






15. 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






16. 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.






17. 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






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






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.






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






29. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






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






34. 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.






35. Good faith means that when the police act with the honest belief that they are following proper rules. According to the ruling in US v. Leon - when officers have acted in good faith reliance on a warrant - the evidence will not be excluded even if th






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






37. 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.






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






39. The most organized and distinctly American officer force was the _____ patrol based in Charleston - South Carolina.






40. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are






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






42. 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.






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






44. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






45. 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






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






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






48. 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.






49. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.






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