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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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1. 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.






2. 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.






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






4. This has resulted in an under ________________ of blacks - women and ethnic minorities in the police force.






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. 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






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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






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






19. Law enforcement in the US is extremely large and ___________ and hence this many agencies currently exist.






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






21. 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 ______.






22. 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






23. 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.






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






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






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






27. A critical function that the police play in society is crime __________ and this role is primarily executed through routine patrolling.






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






29. 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.






30. After the arrest - suspects are brought before a __________ for their first appearance so that the charges brought against them can be read out and if appropriate they may be released on their own recognizance.






31. Incapacitation refers to the act of confinement so that the offender is restrained from committing the crime again whereas the deterrence has the overall aim of crime __________.






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






33. It is believed that the average citizen plays a vital part in the ________________ of officers.






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. 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






42. 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.






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






44. A centralized state-level agency - which merges patrol with ______________ will usually assist in local criminal investigations when asked - patrol the state's highways - operate identification bureaus - manage criminal records and provide training t






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






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






47. Racial profiling is the practice of stopping and or __________ a person not because of any suspected criminal activity but because of that person's race.






48. 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.






49. 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






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