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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






2. 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






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






4. The rights of the accused (and of prisoners) have been defined mostly through the _______________'s interpretation of the Bill of Rights.






5. Under the ___ system - if last night Jim killed John - then set fire to a car and robbed an old lady - these multiple crimes would be recorded as a single incident.






6. 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.






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






8. 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






9. In US v. Irizarry (1982) - the US Supreme Court held that evidence found above a ceiling panel that was out of place was _______ the scope of the plain-view doctrine






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






11. 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 _






12. 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.






13. The assessment stage evaluates the response based on detailed _________ and surveys. The police are also encouraged to conduct a self-analysis to see if they identified the problem correctly in the first place and revise that response if needed.






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. The ATF was previously an organization within the Department of the Treasury but since 24th January 2003 - their agency was transferred to the Department of _______.






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






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






37. The 3 purposes of patrol are to deter crime - increase feelings of public ________ and prepare officers for service through effective dispersal in the neighborhood.






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. 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






44. 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.






45. The courts of general jurisdiction utilize a fact-finding foundation known as the ___________ process which pits the State's interest - as represented by the prosecution against the Defendant's - as represented by defense counsel.






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






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






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






49. 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.






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