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DSST Introduction To Law Enforcement
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1. 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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. 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 _______.

14. Domestic disturbances may be fuelled by alcohol and drug abuse - financial difficulties or many other reasons that are beyond the ________ of the officers.

15. 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.

16. 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.

17. 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.

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

19. 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.

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

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

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

23. 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.

24. 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.

25. 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.

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