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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






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






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






4. Plea bargains avoid an expensive court trial. Prosecutors may offer and defendants may accept a bargained plea to avoid the uncertainty of a jury trial. In many cases - the Defendant agrees to plead guilty to a lesser charge or for a ________ sentenc






5. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






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






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






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






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






10. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






11. 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






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






13. 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.






14. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. 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






20. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.






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






22. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






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






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






25. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






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






27. 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.






28. 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 _______.






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






31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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.






34. This is training in relation to _____________ rules and was spurred by the decisions of the US Supreme Court in the 1960s.






35. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






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






43. The number of homeless people in the US has spiraled upwards in the last 2 decades so that the function of the police in dealing with them is shifting from one of containment and peacekeeping to the delivery of proactive strategies to deal with the _






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






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






46. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






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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