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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






2. The public perception of the police is of a distant and alienated law enforcement unit. Through community policing - police-community relations should ________ as the public have a greater stake and say in their problems and needs.






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






4. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






5. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.






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






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






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






9. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.






10. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






11. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






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






13. By dealing with the underlying issues - for example mental health or financial service problems - then a solution may be found to get them off the street and back into a more ___________ existence.






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






17. Since these crimes are usually not reported - in order to discover them - undercover work using devices such as _________ are utilized.






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






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






20. Ballistics is the scientific _________ of firearms - ammunition - projectiles - bombs and explosives.






21. 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.






22. 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






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






24. 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.






25. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






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






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






28. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






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






30. 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.






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






32. 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






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






34. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






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






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






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






38. 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






39. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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 __________.






47. 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.






48. 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






49. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






50. 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.







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