Law Enforcement Services Vocabulary

Keeping a crime scene free from contamination and tampering.

• Keeping People Out

• Hazardous movement

• Time out

• Scene Integrity

A criminal organization brought to the United States by Italian immigrants in the early nineteenth century.

• Mafia

• Crime

• Thugs

• Bad people

An individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area.

• Cowboys

• Inmates

• Active Shooter

• Teenagers

Specialized unit within a police department that investigates allegations of misconduct by the department’s officers.

• Internal Augmentation

• Insider Trading

• Good Cops

• Internal Affairs

Failure to provide reasonably necessary care to a child.

• child abuse

• child neglect

• child endangerment

• child takers

A forceful, aggressive, or harmful behavior within the home, most often defined in terms of spouses or romantic or dating partners.

• beat him up

• domestic violence

• violent anger

• domestic doom

The punishment of being sent away from a country or other place.

• banishment

• abandonment

• throw aways

• jump and run

A concept of moral rightness based ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, equity and fairness, as well as the administration of the law.

• injustice

• criminal activity

• justice

• justifiable

Specialized components within one or more local law enforcement agencies that focus on drug related crimes.

• Alcohol tobacco firearm

• Central Intelligence

• Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Drug enforcement unit

A feeling of quiet pleasure or security, often while unaware of some potential danger, defect, or the like; self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation, condition, etc.

• Complacency

• Decency

• Diplomacy

• Detrimental