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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.






2. 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






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






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






5. There was no __________ form of criminal justice law in those days. Guilt was assumed; the execution carried out and accepted by all as an act of retribution.






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






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






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






9. Citizen ______ and vigilante groups were the main means of policing the frontier and well-known figures who took up this challenge in the 19th Century include Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp.






10. 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.






11. The CIA is divided into 3 ____________ and 5 mission support offices (MSOs).






12. 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.






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






14. This is the problem of case __________. Research has shown that only about half of felony arrests result in convictions. The question is whether this is due to poor police work or some other reason.






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






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






17. The evidence had to be plainly in sight and even though the officers may have concluded that some items may have been located behind the ceiling panel; it was not in plain view and hence was ______________ as evidence. Furthermore - the officers are






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






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






20. Deterrence prevents crime through using an example or threat of ___________ to persuade the public against committing the crime.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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 _________.






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






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






31. Domestic disturbances are a common order maintenance issue handled by the police but officers generally find them frustrating to handle because there is little that they can do about the _____ of the problem.






32. 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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. 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






37. Patrol is meant to reassure citizens that their environment is _____ and protected from crime.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






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. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) is an annualized report published by the ___ that states the statistical rate of reported crime in the US based on data from police reports.






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






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






45. Able-bodied men who could hear the commotion caused by the victim were obliged to form a posse and join the shire reeve (term from which ________ is derived) or mounted officer in pursuit of the offender.






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






47. 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.






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






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






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