Important Vocabulary:

2. 2. __________________ - the formal and informal use of local or neighborhood forms of government and measures to deter abhorrent behaviors (is repulsive, disgusting behaviors)

3. Important Vocabulary

5. 3. LEMAS (____________________________________________________________) reports on law enforcement personnel data issued by the National Institute of Justice under its Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics program.

Local Law Enforcement

3. 4. _______________________________ are operated by cities, certain very large counties, villages, and towns and are generally led or managed by a commissioner or chief who is appointed by the executive of the locality.

Local Law Enforcement

5. 5. ___________________ are generally operated by counties and are led or managed by a popularly elected sheriff.

6. 6. True or False: Departments with fewer than 10 full-time officers accounted for 53 percent of all agencies, but employed just 6 percent of all officers. About 638 local police departments (5 percent) employed 100 or more full-time sworn personnel. 

Metropolitan and State Law Enforcement

7. 7. True or False: Municipal or city governments operate the vast majority of the nearly 12,501 metropolitan police departments in the United States.  The rest are operated by county,  Parish, tribal, or Federal jurisdictions.  

   
   

8. 8. True or False: The largest sheriff ’s office in the nation is the San Andreas Sheriff’s Department, which employs more than 9,461 full-time sworn personnel.

   
   

10. Rural and Small-Town Law Enforcement

12. 9. True or False: Eighty-seven percent of police departments serve rural and small-town law enforcement, with 25 or fewer officers. 

    
    

10. 10. Many small remote towns and villages cannot afford to hire local police officers and often rely on __________________ based in areas far away. 

    
    

11. Rural and Small - Town Law Enforcement

13. 11. True or False: Studies indicate that small town officers are subject to the same stress that big-town police and deputies face, and often additional types of stress due to greater difficulties in maintaining a work–life balance. Police officers who live and work in small towns almost never have an opportunity to decompress.  

Indian Country and Tribal Law Enforcement

12. 12. True or False: Policing in and adjacent to land within Indian country is often a easy job. The governmental power to make or enforce laws in Indian country is divided among federal, state, and tribal governments.

    
    

13. Local Law Enforcement and Illegal Immigration

14. 13. True or False: The Phoenix Police Department bars its officers from stopping people for the sole purpose of determining immigration status. It also forbids officers to call the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about people who are crime victims or witnesses or people who have committed only minor civil offenses, such as driving without a license. 

    
    

14. 14. Some law enforcement agencies are training their officers to perform immigration checks themselves as part of ICE’s ________ program. This program refers to Section ________ of the 1996 Immigration and Nationality Act. The ______ program deputizes local officers to help enforce federal immigration laws.

    
    

15. 15. April 2010, the governor of Arizona signed the nation’s toughest bill on illegal immigration, The law requires police officers to detain people they ___________________ are in the country without authorization and to verify their status with federal officials. It also makes it a state crime, a misdemeanor, to not carry immigration papers, and the law allows people to sue local governments or agencies if they believe federal or state immigration is not being enforced.

16. 16. True or False: Sanctuary cites are cities that don't limit their cooperation with the national government in order to catch people who are in the country illegally avoid deportation. Currently there are over 200 sanctuary cites in the United States that assist federal law when it comes to prosecuting illegal immigrants.

    
    

17. 17. True or False: Forty-nine of the 50 U.S. states have a primary state law enforcement agency AKA State Police. They have state-wide jurisdiction. The only state without a primary state police agency is Alaska. 

    
    

State Law Enforcement AKA State Police

18. 18. The only state without a primary state police agency is Hawaii.

State Law Enforcement

At the state level, there are two distinct models of law enforcement agencies:

19. The first model is __________________________________________________ - Combines the duties of major criminal investigations with the patrol of state highways. 

State Law Enforcement

At the state level, there are two distinct models of law enforcement agencies:

20. The second model ____________________________ - Combines the duties of major criminal investigations with the patrol of state highways.