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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. In serious cases - this may be the outcome. However - hospital care for the mentally ill is very disjointed and it may be difficult to hospitalize a person without their ________. Also - these hospitals or shelters may refuse to admit these patients.






2. This is to ensure that ___________ with the administrative rules is maintained.






3. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






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






8. 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






9. 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.






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






14. 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 __________.






15. Some legal experts believe that police discretion should be abolished because it is _______.






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






17. 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






18. 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.






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






20. This was the ruling of the court. Many commentators were surprised but the court decided that although arrest for trivial offences (in this case a seat belt violation) may be embarrassing - it was not so extraordinary as to breach the ____ amendment






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






22. 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.






23. Research into police work and activities conducted between the 1950s and 1970s concluded that police-community relations were very ____ and officers regularly breached legal rules






24. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.






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






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






27. 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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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






37. This is the way criminal trials are conducted in the US and it is governed by strict rules of __________.






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






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






40. Field training consists of practical on-the-job training with a __________ field training officer.






41. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.






42. 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






43. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.






44. 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






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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.






50. 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







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