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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement

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






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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






6. This was the only way they could ________ themselves and their property from the bandits. They did try to apply the accepted standards of decency of the day to their actions.






7. J Edgar ______ - the Director of the FBI in the 1930s had a critical impact on local policing in setting educational and training models for officers - the development of the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the establishment of the FBI crime lab.






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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 __________.






12. 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






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






14. 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 __________.






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. This is one of the reports produced by the FBI in its law _____________ role.






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






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






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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. 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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






43. Officers at the academy undergo _________ training and most academies also offer field training.






44. The _________ Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)is the term coined for this annual study.






45. 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 _______.






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






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






48. Officers appointed to carry out investigative work are known as __________.






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






50. 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.







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