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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. 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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






10. 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.






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






12. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






13. 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






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






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






16. 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






17. 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






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






19. 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.






20. The first ___ amendments of the Constitution are commonly called the Bill of Rights and offer the individual considerable protection in the criminal justice system.






21. 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.






22. 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






23. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






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






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






26. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






27. 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.






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






29. 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 _






30. 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 _______.






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






32. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






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






34. This is the venue for police training and the value of training has experienced a dramatic _________ in status since its inception.






35. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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






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