Intro to Law Enforcement

Types Of Policing

100

The situation in which a police officer who is suspicious of an individual detains the person and runs his hands lightly over the suspect's outer garments to determine if the person is carrying a concealed weapon.

What is Stop & Frisk

200

This aims to reduce crime by going after minor crimes/ offenses like turnstile jumping in subway stations. The idea is that cracking down on small things reduces the culture of crime that sets the stage for bigger offenses.

What is Broken Windows Policing

300

This policy imposes automatic punishment for infractions of a stated rule, with the intention of eliminating undesirable conduct.It also forbids persons in positions of authority from exercising discretion or changing punishments to fit the circumstances subjectively; they are required to impose a pre-determined punishment regardless of individual culpability, extenuating circumstances, or history. This pre-determined punishment need not be severe, but it is always meted out.

What is Zero tolerance policing.

400

A group of law enforcement bodies that are owned and/or controlled by non-governmental entities.

What is Private police.

500

A territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.They also have significant national responsibilities such as co-ordinating and leading on counter-terrorism matters and protection of the British Royal Family and senior figures of Her Majesty's Government.

What is Metropolitan London Police.

Vocabulary

100

These organized groups of three to six[citation needed] white men who enforced discipline upon black slaves in the antebellum U.S. southern states. They policed the slaves on plantations and hunted down fugitive slaves. Patrols used summary punishment against escapees, maiming or killing them.

What is slave patrols.

200

The use of an individual’s race or ethnicity by law enforcement personnel as a key factor in deciding whether to engage in enforcement

What is racial profiling.

300

An intergovernmental organization facilitating international police cooperation.

What is INTERPOL.

400

A system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.

What is the Frankpledge system.

500

An unwritten rule among police officers not to report on a colleague's errors, misconducts, or crimes. If questioned about an incident of misconduct involving another officer, while following the code, the officer being questioned would claim ignorance of another officer's wrongdoing.

What is the Blue Wall of Silence.

Who/What

100

This intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities—the principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Justice and a full member of the U.S. Intelligence Community. It has the authority and responsibility to investigate specific crimes assigned to it and to provide other law enforcement agencies with cooperative services, such as fingerprint identification, laboratory examinations, and training. It also gathers, shares, and analyzes intelligence—both to support its own investigations and those of its partners and to better understand and combat the security threats facing the United States.

What is the FBI.

200

FEMA, FLETC, TSA (transportation authority), US COAST GUARD, ICE (Customs & immigration), Secret Service

What are agencies under the Department of Homeland Security.

300

The man who created the Metropolitan Police when he served as Home Secretary of England. According to him, the real key for policing is "the police are the people and the people are the police". He believed that prevention of crime could be accomplished without intruding into the lives of citizens. With the development of the Metropolitan Police, he established nine principles to his theory of policing.

Who is Sir Robert Peel.

400

This individual has the power to make arrests within his or her own jurisdiction. Some states extend this authority to adjacent counties or to the entire state. They also perform other functions such as traffic control and enforcement, accident investigations, and maintenance and transportation of prisoners. Larger departments may perform criminal investigations or engage in other specialized law enforcement activities or even aviation (including fixed-wing aircraft or helicopters), canine units, mounted details, or water patrols at their disposal.

What are the duties of the sheriff.

500

1. To prevent crime and disorder, as an alternative to their repression by military force and severity of legal punishment. 2. To recognize always that the power of the police to fulfil their functions and duties is dependent on public approval of their existence, actions and behaviour and on their ability to secure and maintain public respect. 3. To recognize always that to secure and maintain the respect and approval of the public means also the securing of the willing co-operation of the public in the task of securing observance of laws. 4. To recognize always that the extent to which the co-operation of the public can be secured diminishes proportionately the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion for achieving police objectives. 5. To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion; but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws, by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour; and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life. 6. To use physical force only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient to obtain public co-operation to an extent necessary to secure observance of law or to restore order, and to use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective. 7. To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. 8. To recognize always the need for strict adherence to police-executive functions, and to refrain from even seeming to usurp the powers of the judiciary of avenging individuals or the State, and of authoritatively judging guilt and punishing the guilty. 9. To recognize always that the test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, and not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.

What are Sir Robert Peels nine principles of policing.

Agencies

100

The principal investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, responsible for deportation and detention.

What is the Customs and Immigration Agencies (ICE).

200

The primary goals of this group are the safety of motorists on interstate highways, and the enforcement of traffic laws on those interstate highways, but can also involve state wide law enforcement and criminal investigation.

What are the duties of the State Police.

300

They are a part of the executive branch of government, and is the enforcement arm of the U.S. federal courts. They are the primary agency for fugitive operations & are also responsible for the protection of officers of the court, court buildings and the effective operation of the judiciary. The service also assists with court security, prisoner transport, and serves arrest warrants.

What are the duties of a US Marshall.

400

Department of Agriculture (USDA) Department of Commerce (DOC) Department of Defense[edit] Department of the Army Department of the Navy Department of the Air Force Department of Education Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Health and Human Services Department of Homeland Security (DHS) United States Coast Guard (USCG) Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHSOIG) Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of the Interior (USDI) Department of Justice Department of Labor Department of Transportation Department of the Treasury

What are the Federal law enforcement agencies.

500

Auxiliary Police, members of volunteer, unpaid or paid, part-time civilian police, security officer units, interns; Company police. Fire Police, members of specialized traffic control units responding with volunteer fire companies; Security police; or Special Law Enforcement Officers - used in New Jersey to supplement full-time police officers.

What are types of special police.