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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. 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 _






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.






16. 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.






17. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






18. 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.






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






20. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






21. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






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






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






24. 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






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






26. The Defendant was _________ arrested in his office - which consisted of a single room. The search was valid and reasonable given the circumstances of the arrest and small space of the area he was arrested in.






27. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.






28. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.






29. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






30. 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.






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






32. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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






37. 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 _________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. One of the most controversial incidents in recent American police history occurred in ___________ in 1991 when officers subdued Rodney King using considerable force; resulting in 2 criminal trials and a riot that seriously damaged PCR for several yea






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. 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.