Word List Law Enforcement and Police 463 words

Law Enforcement and Police Vocabulary Word List (463)

• A

  abuse, Academy, accessory, accidental, accomplice, accord, accused, action, administer, adopt, affect, affidavit, against, agency, agent, agreement, alias, alibi, alienate, appeal, appoint, appraisal, armed, arraignment, arrest, arson, aspect, assault, assignment, assistance, attachment, attitude, attorney, authority, authorize, autopsy

• B

  backup, badge, bail, ballistics, bankruptcy, bargain, basis, battery, beat, behavior, belief, blackmail, bloodstain, bobby, bomb squad, bond, branch, breach, bribery, brutal, burden, burglary

• C

  capability, captain, capture, career, case, cease fire, challenge, character, charges, cheat, citizen, civil, claim, code, cold case, collusion, commission, commit, common-law, community property, community service, complication, conduct, confession, consent, consideration, conspiracy, constable, Constitution, contempt, convict, cooperation, cop, coroner, corruption, counterfeit, court, credit theft, crime, criminal, criminal justice system, criminology

• D

  damage, danger, dangerous, deal, dealings, decision, dedication, deed, defendant, defense, deliberate, delinquency, democratic, denial, department, deputy, details, detain, detection, detective, determination, deviant, direct, discovery, disobedience, dispatch, disregard, district attorney, documentation, documents, drugs, duty

• E

  educate, education, effect, embezzle, emphasis, enable, encumber, enforce, entail, equality, equipment, ethical, eviction, evidence, examinations, examine, execute, experience, expert, extort, extradition, extreme

• F

  failure, fairness, fake, family, FBI, fear, federal, felony, fight, fine, fingerprint, follow-up, footprints, force, forgery, formal charge, fraud, freedom, friends, full-scale, fundamental

• G

  gangs, government, grand theft, guarantee, guard, guilty, gun

• H

  handle, harmful, helicopter, helpful, hiding, high-powered rifle, hijack, hire, homicide, honesty, honor, hostage, hunch

• I

  identity theft, illegal, immoral, impeach, imprison, inappropriate, incompetent, indictment, influence, informant, information, initiative, injury, innocent, inquest, intelligence, interests, interference, INTERPOL, interpretation, interstate, intuition, investigate, investigation, irregular, issue

• J

  jail, John Doe, joy, judge, judgment, judicial, jury, justice, juvenile

• K

  kidnapping, kin

• L

  laboratory, larceny, law, lawfully, lawsuit, lawyer, lease, legacy, legal, libel, liberty, license, lie detector, lien, lieutenant, limits, long hours, lynch

• M

  mace, maintain, majority, malice, malpractice, manslaughter, mayhem, metal detector, minority, misdemeanor, mission, moratorium, motorist, murder

• N

  nasty, negligent, negotiable, negotiate, neighborhood, notation, notification, nuisance

• O

  oath, obedience, obey, obligation, offender, offense, officer, official, opinion, opportunity, order, organize, ownership

• P

  paperwork, partner with, partnership, patrol, pedestrian, penalize, penalty, perjury, perpetrator, persistence, petition, petty, phony, plainclothes officer, plead, police, police academy, power, precedent, prevention, previous, principle, prior, prison, private, probable cause, probation officer, problems, procedure, professional, proof, property, prosecutor, protection, provision, public, punishment

• Q

  qualification, quality, quantify, quantity, quarrel, quell, quest, question, quickly, quirk

• R

  radar, rank, reason, record, recruit, redress, reduction, referendum, refute, regulations, reinforcement, reject, repeal, reported, reports, reprobate, reputation, resist, responsibility, restraining order, restriction, rights, riot, robbery, rogue, rules, rulings

• S

  sabotage, safeguard, safety, sanction, savvy, scene, scheme, sealed record, search and rescue team, search warrant, secret, seize, selection, sentence, sergeant, seriousness, services, sheriff, shyster, sighting, situation, skillful, slander, slaying, smuggling, solution, solve, sorrow, squad, statute, statute of limitation, stealing, stipulation, stolen, subdue, subpoena, succor, summons, suppress, surveillance, suspect, suspected, suspicion, suspicious, sworn, system

• T

  tactic, tantamount, technique, testify, testimony, threaten, threatening, thwart, traffic, transaction, transfer, treatment, trespass, trial, trooper, trust

• U

  unacceptable, unauthorized, unclaimed, unconstitutional, undercover, underpaid, unintentional, unique, unit, unjust, unknown, unlawful, unlikely, uphold

• V

  vagrancy, vandalism, veteran, victim, victimize, vigilante, violate, violation, volume, volunteer

• W

  wanted poster, ward, warrant, weapon, will, wiretap, wisdom, witness, writ, wrong

• X

  X-ray

• Y

  yell, yelp, youth

• Z

  zeal, zealous