EXAM 1 Flashcards
The word police comes from the Latin word. . .
Policia
Policia Means
Civil administration
First form of English police officer and responsible for dealing with more serious breaches in law enforcement
The constable
Beadles were . . .
assistants to the constable and walked the streets removing vagrants
Who were thief-takers
private police. Had no official stauts and were paid by the king for every criminal they arrested - bounty hunters
England’s first uniformed patrol was the ____ patrol
Horse patrol
Henry Fieldings brought about the first official ___ reports
crime
Bow street runners from fieldings organization were not ___ by public ____ but could accept rewards
Paid; public
Peel’s Police created the first large scale, uniform, organized, ___, police force
Paid
Precursor to the modern American system
Slave patrols
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) Held that Dred Scott, a black slave, could not ___ in court for his freedom because he was not a citizen, but instead a piece of property
sue
Where did the term “cops” come from?
The copper badges they wore
The biggest problem with the Atlanta Georgia department was that they were made up of
“the poor, elderly, and the not-so honest element”
Federal judiciary act of 1789 created the office of the ________
U.S. Marshalls
Volstead Act
National prohibition, Eighteenth amendment
The Wickersham Commission
First national study of The US Criminal justice system
Father of policing:
August Vollmer can certainly be considered the father of policing
Miranda VS Arizone (1966)
Required police to notify sus of rights before arrest and or questioning
Rodney King Incident 1991
african american male killed by police, pushed american policing back 30 years
LEMAS Program stands for. . .
Law enforcement management and administration program
FBI
Federal bureau of investigation
Vast majority of all law enforcment employees in the united states are ____ leo
Local law enforcment or local police
majority of local police are employed by ______ agencies
larger
Departments with fewer than __ full-time officer account for __ percent of all agencies. BUT employed just __ % of all officers
10;53;6
Total % females in local departments
12.0%
largest police dept is. . .
New York (NYPD) 36,023 sworn officers
the largest county police department in the united states is the. . .
Miami-dade county police dept (3,120 offciers)
Alaska does have a state -funded village public safety officer (VPSO) program for____ villages
small villages, 10 weeks training, little to no backup, HIGH turnover rate of 40%
Governmental power to make or enforce laws on Indian country is divided among . . .
federal, state, and tribal gov’ts. Jurisdiction depends on nature of offense
Public indian law 83-280 States include…
Alaska, California, Minnesota, Nebraska, orogen and Wisconsin
Only state without a primary state LE agency is _______(although several local departments with state-wide jurisdiction)
Hawaii
Traditionally, creation of laws and enforcement were matters of the _____
State
Under The US attorney generals control, responsible for enforcing all federal law, rep’ing the gov’t when it is involved in a court action, and conducting investigations through its law enforcement services
The U.S. Department of Justice (primary legal and prosecutorial arm of the US Gov
Who operates the National Institute of Justice
Justice department
FBi is best known of
the other federal law enforcement agencies
NCJRS
National criminal justice reference service
There is NO national ____ force
police
Uniform crime report produces an annual compilation that includes information on ______
Crimes, arrest, offcier killed, and other data
US Marshels provide. . .
witness protection, at fed trials, catch fed fugitives, execute fed warrants, operate fed protetcion program, and in charge of the US asset seizure and forfeiture programs
Estabished march 2003. Merged 22 domestic agencies into one dept to protect the nation against outside threats. at conception, 170,000 empoyees
Dept of homeland security
secret service also does what?
counterfit
One supervisor for every __ to __ officers
6 to 10
shared leadership
Federal, state, and local departments are typically protected under what system>?
civil service regulations, typically larger dept’s , but not alwasy
Sworn members
officers
Non-sworn
civilians
Detectives exercise ___ supervisory role over police officers EXCEPT AT ____
NO; crimes scenes
Platoon consists of. . .
all peeps working a particular shift, wacth, or squad (lieutenent in charge)
The process of removing sworn officers from noncritical roles and replacing with civilians is called….
civilianization
police reserves and auxiliaries are typically not paid BUT sometimes are ____
paid
reserve offcier is ___ time, and who serves as _____.
part-time; serves as needed
back-bone of dept is the
patrol
__ hour shift is the most common
8
Auxiliary are. . .
records, detention, drug, alchol srvices, property, labs, communications, etc
