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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. The county level of government supplies citizens with police services - for example the county ________.






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






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






4. 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.






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






6. 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.






7. 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 _






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. This is the definition of bail. If the suspect fails to appear for the next court hearing - then the money or property pledged may be __________.






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






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






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






15. Research showed that patrol was of little deterrence and speedier response times did not increase the arrest rate nor assisted in the solving of crimes. Community policing is meant to create a _____________ between police and community to develop pro






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. The spoils system is greatly reduced in modern politics - though not entirely eliminated. Most ________ workers do not have to be concerned about losing their jobs when a new party takes office.






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






22. 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.






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






24. The NCVS Survey is a yearly study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of specific households to determine the level of criminal _____________ - particularly unreported victimization - in the US.






25. In 1837 - the slave patrol consisted of about 100 officers and they were responsible for finding ________ slaves and ensuring that they were well-behaved.






26. 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.






27. 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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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.






32. The 1980s and 1990s saw the creation of _______ oversight of police groups to monitor or investigate complaints by individuals against police actions.






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






34. This may also be called '________ officer.' The investigative nature of their jobs has resulted in their classification as a local law enforcement agency.






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. They believe that _____-reporting provides more accurate information than police reports.






41. When an appellate court is asked to review a judgment - they may ______ it - require the lower court to set it aside or modify it.






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






48. The majority of criminal cases do not go to trial but are instead settled via a plea _______.






49. 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.






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







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