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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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






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






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






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






7. 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






8. 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






9. 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.






10. There is no _________ method of centralized policing in the US as police services are provided by the 4 levels of government which are the city - county - state and federal levels.






11. 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 ________.






12. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






13. 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 __________.






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. These experts contend that officers do not have the authority to subvert the criminal law. Some states have criminalized the failure of criminal justice officials who turn a ______ eye to enforcement.






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






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






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






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






25. 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.






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






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. Another source of PCR tension is discriminatory employment practices of the ______ force.






29. 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 _______.






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. Upon conviction - the defendant is punished through a sentence passed by the judge and if convicted of more than one crime - then may be subject to a ___________ or concurrent sentence.






38. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






39. The police receive a sizeable number of calls about ________ ill persons and in exercising their discretion these matters are normally dealt with through arrest - hospitalization or informal disposition.






40. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






41. 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.






42. Tensions between the police and racial minorities continue despite the many advances made since the 1960s; major complaints are still made regularly and these include use of excessive force and ______ profiling.






43. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






48. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.






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






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