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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






2. 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.






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. The 3 main approaches to controlling police discretion are removing it - improving the professional judgment of officers through better training and managing it through _______ policies.






8. The 911 communications center is the _____ of a modern police department.






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






10. Since the 1980s - there have been some very public crackdowns on _____ driving but rates of this offence which creep down during the crackdown soon return to the original levels because the publicity forces a temporary change in behavior which is not






11. 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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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.






17. According to the doctrine of ______ patriae - the state has a duty to care for children who are neglected or delinquent - and to assume the role of parent if necessary.






18. 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.






19. The Defendant was _________ arrested in his office - which consisted of a single room. The search was valid and reasonable given the circumstances of the arrest and small space of the area he was arrested in.






20. The office of coroner is considered a local law enforcement agency because they determine the cause of _____ of victims and perpetrators in criminal cases.






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






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






23. Officers must file written _______ in certain circumstances when they exercise their discretion - for example when they fire their weapon and these reports must be reviewed by their superiors.






24. Bail describes the circumstance when suspects are released from custody but on condition that money or property is offered as __________ against flight.






25. In dealing with federal criminal law enforcement - the duty of the FBI upon investigation is to gather evidence and perform personnel investigations - especially in major programs such as _________ crime and white-collar crime.






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






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






28. Officers have very broad discretion - yet this subject is _______ taught or sufficiently taught to better aid the officers in making an appropriate decision.






29. 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.






30. It can be argued that __________ officers possess an additional skill and therefore the extra pay can be justified on those grounds.






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






32. 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.






33. The UCR has a hierarchy rule whereby multiple types of incidents can only be recorded as 1 incident. This is a _________ of the system.






34. 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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






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






39. This is the term coined to describe this diagrammatic representation. It differentiates between ________ crimes such as murder and rape and property crime such as burglary and arson.






40. 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 _






41. 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 _________.






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






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






44. 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 ______.






45. The spoils system refers to firing supporters of the opponent and replacing them with one's own supporters upon ________.






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






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






50. 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