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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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.






2. Organized law enforcement in Britain can be traced back to 1200 AD when identified law breakers were pursued by a _____ led by the shire reeve or mounted officer.






3. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






4. 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 _________.






5. Public concern led to the start of the crackdown and this is viewed as an important police role but it is very difficult to spot the minority of drunk drivers amongst those who are ______.






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






7. This is due to the dominance of the local political structure by ______ persons. Detroit has had a black mayor since 1973 and the police force is dominated by black persons. Thus - the black community can better relate with their local police






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






16. The exclusionary rule was modified by the __________ exception in the US Supreme Court decision of US v. Leon (1984).






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






18. The drawbacks of the administrative rule-making route are that they can never cover every conceivable situation; it may promote lying - avoidance - confusion and a negative ________ from officers.






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. The _________ Act passed by Congress in 1883 put an end to Andrew Jackson's 'spoils system -' and created a system of hiring government employees based on their qualifications.






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






39. Good faith means that when the police act with the honest belief that they are following proper rules. According to the ruling in US v. Leon - when officers have acted in good faith reliance on a warrant - the evidence will not be excluded even if th






40. 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.






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.






46. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






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






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






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






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







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