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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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 __________.






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






3. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






4. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






5. The local police cover a wide range of law enforcement agencies such as the municipal police - sheriff's departments - campus and _______ police.






6. 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.






7. Another word for uphold is _________. This is the result for most appellate court decisions whereby they confirm the decision of the lower court.






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






9. Affirmative action is mandated by a Presidential _________ Order in 1965 - so that all private employers and government agencies who receive federal monies have to develop written affirmative action plans.






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






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






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






19. Where offenders are not captured red-handed - an arrest _______ issued by an officer of the court is required to supply the legal foundation for the act of detention.






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






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






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






23. Decentralization means reduced _____________ of rank and file officers who have greater discretion in making decisions.






24. 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.






25. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






26. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. This was the step taken in 1965 to remedy _________ discrimination.






32. A warrant is a _____ issued by the court to justify the arrest of a suspect. It offers protection to the officer executing the warrant against damages; for example for wrongful arrest.






33. Wilson believed in the necessity to continue and encourage _____________________ within the police force. He was the chief of police in Wichita from 1928 to 1935 - the Dean of Criminology at the University of California from 1950 to 1960 and the supe






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






35. Criminalistics relies on __________ to analyze firearms and munitions as well as various forensic techniques to determine issues such as time of death.






36. Due to an increase in _________ and disorder by citizens - officers turned to weaponry to protect themselves.






37. 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.






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. 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 _______.






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






44. The FBI has the responsibility to investigate - analyze and neutralize any potential terrorist threats and to investigate and analyze terrorist __________ in the US.






45. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






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