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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






2. The controversial 'broken window' theory made the connection between disorder - neighborhood decay and _____.






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






4. The CID within the FBI is responsible for organized crime - violent crime - ____________ and money laundering.






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






6. Between the data in the UCR and NCVS - most experts tend to prefer the ____.






7. The police ___________ of secrecy - public hostility and solidarity meant they were very isolated from the community - especially the black community.






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






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






10. The Supreme Court created a good faith exception to the exclusionary rule when police officers use search warrants (US v. ____ - 1984).






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. Training is one of the roles a ______-level enforcement agency usually engages in.






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. It is interesting to note that the city of Detroit is the only state in which blacks rate the police force more ______ than their white counterparts.






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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






39. 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






40. 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.






41. 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






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






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






44. 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.






45. ____ did not become regulated officer equipment until the late 19th Century.






46. 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






47. 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.






48. The 3 CIA directorates are the directorate of Intelligence - directorate of Operations and the directorate of Science and ___________.






49. 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.






50. One of the major problems facing patrol officers is high-speed pursuits is a high ________ rate.






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