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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. The ________ rule was further emphasized in Edwards v. Arizona (1981) - when the court prohibited investigators from continuing questioning once the suspect has requested an attorney.






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






3. 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 ______.






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






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






8. 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






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






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






11. 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.






12. Individuals have the right to live in their homes peacefully and not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures by virtue of the ___ amendment.






13. Police training programs do suffer from ___________ - particularly as important areas such as domestic violence - ethics and police discretion - which are not usually covered






14. 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






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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 _






22. 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.






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 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.






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






26. 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.






27. When called to attend to a non-crime incident - the police have to exercise discretion and can usually handle the situation _______ taking formal police action.






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






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






30. 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






31. Domestic violence must be distinguished from a domestic ___________ in the sense that in the former a serious crime has been committed and so the officers can exercise their powers of arrest - if they choose to do so although research shows that offi






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






33. The CIA also engages in ______ operations sanctioned by the President as part of their role in ensuring national security.






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






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






36. The role of the police academy is to provide formal training - root out ___________ recruits and immerse the trainees in the police subculture.






37. 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.






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






39. 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.






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. Some departments allow for bidding of new patrol areas once or twice _________.






47. Police subculture is determined by the potential of ______ and because of this they stereotype certain categories of persons - such as low-income males - as possible threats.






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






49. The rise of police professionalism and reform was spearheaded by August _______ who served as the chief of police in Berkeley - California from 1905 to 1932.






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