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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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.






2. This is because patrol consists of the majority of police work and this is ________ through the police communications network - which is triggered by 911 calls.






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






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






5. 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.






6. Officers are commonly offered bribes to let suspects go or to turn a blind eye to ________ activities.






7. 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.






8. 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.






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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






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






15. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro






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






17. 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.






18. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






19. 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






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






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






22. 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 _






23. 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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. 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 __________.






34. 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.






35. 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






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






37. 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 _______.






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






39. 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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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