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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

Subjects : dsst, law-enforcement
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1. 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.






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. 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 __________.






4. The UCR statistics are used to create the FBI Crime Clock which creates a picture of crime _________ in the US.






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






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






7. 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 __________.






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.






13. 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.






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






19. 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.






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






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






22. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






23. 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






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






25. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






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






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






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






29. 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.






30. 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






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






32. The exclusionary rule relates to illegally seized evidence. In this case - the police searched and seized personal effects as well as incriminating evidence from the Defendant's house without a warrant. On the basis of this evidence - the Defendant w






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






34. 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.






35. 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






36. In this case - the Defendants were suspected of evading taxes but they refused to hand over their company books. An illegal search and seizure was performed and the books returned soon after - when the Defendant's lawyer objected. At the trial - the






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






38. 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.






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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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






45. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






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







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