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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. In order to police __________ crimes - officers generally have to resort to undercover work.






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






3. There is usually a degree of competition between detectives and _______ officers. The latter sometimes withhold information in the hope of beating detectives to solving a case.






4. This means that the court releases the suspect into their own custody or into the care of another. This occurs where the suspect poses a low flight risk and is not __________ to the community.






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






6. 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 ________.






7. 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






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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 __________.






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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.






29. 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 _________.






30. 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.






31. 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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. 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






42. This is the right granted under the Constitution but the Supreme Court has held that it can be exercised only for offences carrying a term of ______________ exceeding 6 months or where the extra penalties such as fines and community service are suffi






43. This is one of the main functions of the police academy and ensures that unsuitable recruits do not make it as officers. About 10% of recruits do not _________ from the academy.






44. This was the bright-line rule (one that can ______ be crossed) that emerged from this case.






45. The CIA has operations officers and recruits ________ agents as part of their intelligence activities and this may involve covert operations.






46. 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






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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.