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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






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






3. 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.






4. 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.






5. 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 _






6. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. The professionalization movement started by Vollmer was nurtured by his prot






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






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






21. 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






22. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






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 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.






25. The exclusionary rule was extended by the US Supreme Court in the case of Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. US (1920) - which held that ______ of illegally seized evidence were inadmissible in court.






26. 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






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






28. 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.






29. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






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






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






32. There are over _____ sheriff's departments in the US.






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






34. 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.






35. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






36. Officers are allocated to specific shifts and patrol areas based on _________ or using a rotation system.






37. The Hispanic community is growing faster than expected and therefore police departments should take steps to hire more Hispanic officers through active recruitment processes and offering incentive ___ for bilingual officers.






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






39. 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.






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






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. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.






43. The written policies method is called '________________ rule-making' and it is presently the most popular method of controlling discretion.






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






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






47. 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






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






49. There are around _____ federal - state and local law enforcement agencies in the US.






50. 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