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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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.






6. This occurs where criminal and non-criminal actions are used by an officer in the course of his/her working activities or committed when pretending it is within his/her ___________ police authority. An example is sleeping on the job or a racial slur






7. 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 _






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






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






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






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






12. 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






13. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






14. The role of the ___ is to investigate breaches of federal criminal law - to protect the country from foreign counterintelligence and terrorist activities and to provide law enforcement assistance to other agencies.






15. When it comes to prostitution - low-level street-walking is usually tolerated so that the role of the police is normally ___________ and maintaining the peace.






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






17. 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 ________.






18. Wilson and Kelling believed that the broken window symbolized a deteriorating neighborhood and not repaired led to the eventual decline of an area - thereby encouraging criminal _________.






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. 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.






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






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






24. Under the 6th Amendment to the Constitution - every defendant has the right to a ____ trial.






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






26. 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






27. _________ policing took off in the 1980s and 1990s - with the realization that the police could not fight crime on their own.






28. 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 _______.






29. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






30. 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






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






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






33. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






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






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






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






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






38. 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






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






40. August Vollmer believed that policing standards needed to be improved and corruption stamped out. He advocated training and __________ for officers.






41. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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.







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