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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






2. 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.






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






4. The ________ stage of SARA refers to the creation of strategies based on the analyzed data to deal with the problem whereas the assessment stage requires an evaluation of the effectiveness of the response.






5. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.






6. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






7. A limited amount of streetwalking is tolerated if it is restricted to a particular part of town - usually a business district and it is not too ________.






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






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






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






11. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






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






13. 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






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






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






16. Generally - surveys have revealed that ________ people tend to be more dissatisfied with the police than older persons. Some youths seem to believe that the police target them simply because they are young and think that all teenagers are up to no go






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.






21. 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






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






23. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






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






25. The first ___ amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. They were created to restrict government actions against the individual.






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






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






28. Various studies have shown that these pursuits have between an 18% to 33% chance of resulting in an accident. As a consequence - many departments have a restrictive - discouraging or discretionary _______ regarding high-speed pursuits for officers to






29. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






30. 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.






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






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. 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.






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






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






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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.






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






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






43. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






44. Increasing ___________ and reducing competition between patrol officers and detectives as well as improving police-citizen relationships are 2 important methods of enhancing the quality of investigative work.






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






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






50. 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.