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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






2. 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






3. When the offender was apprehended by the posse - trials were rarely held and public __________ were held to dispense justice.






4. Sheriff departments are usually responsible for _______ court papers - civil summons - and managing security in state courtrooms.






5. 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






6. 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






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






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






9. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.






10. 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






11. 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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






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






18. 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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






23. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine






24. 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 _______.






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






26. 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.






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.






34. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






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






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






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






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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