CRJU_Principles of Policing_Chapter 5-8 Study Guide

The attitude that police officers have to stick together because everyone is out to get the police is reflected in what core belief?

Us Vs. Them / The Blue Curtain

Which agency is the arm of the Justice Department that investigates violations of federal law, gathers crime statistics, runs a comprehensive crime laboratory, and helps train local law enforcement officers?

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

The attitude that police officers have to stick together because everyone is out to get the police is reflected in what core belief?

Us Vs. Them / The Blue Curtain

Which agency is the arm of the Justice Department that investigates violations of federal law, gathers crime statistics, runs a comprehensive crime laboratory, and helps train local law enforcement officers?

FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Which model views the role of police as maintainers of community order and safety?

Broken Windows Model

What type of operation is designed to encourage and observe criminal behavior so the officers can make an arrest?

Predictive Policing / Profiling

What is the nation’s monument to police officers who have died in the line of duty?

The National Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial

What duty is paramount in the private policing context, whereas public policing replies more heavily on the detection of criminal acts and apprehension of suspects?

Loss Prevention

What are considered hot spots of crime because a significant portion of police calls typically originate in these areas?

Bars / Malls / Bus Depot / Hotels / Apartments

In the Old West, who were members of vigilance committee or posse that was called upon to capture cattle thieves or other felons?

Vigilantes

Why are English Police officers known as “Bobbies”?

Sir Robert peel / Short for the organizer of the Metropolitan Police Force

A problem faced by police during the 1960s was?

Turmoil / Crisis / Civil Unrest

What type of Policing involves personalized service and decentralized policing, citizen empowerment, and an effort to reduce community dear of crime, disorder, and decay?

Community Policing

A government actor’s infringement on a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy is referred to as a?

Search

What did the Miranda rights establish?

The right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.

What is the name of an order, issued by a judge, directing officers to conduct a search of a specified premises for specified objects?

Search Warrant

What term refers to a police officer taking a person into custody or depriving a person of freedom for having allegedly committed a criminal offence?

Arrest / Seizure of person

Police officers who are suspicious of an individual run their hands lightly over the suspect’s outer parents to determine whether the person is carrying a concealed weapon. What is this known as?

Frisking (Stop and Frisk)

What type of circumstances are emergency or urgent circumstances?

Exigent Circumstances

In what landmark case did the U.S. Supreme Court deem the use of deadly force against an unarmed and non-dangerous fleeing felon to be an illegal seizure under the Fourth Amendment?

Tennessee V. Garner (1985)

Which term refers to the grounds or fields attached to a house or property?

Curtilage

A warrant based on an officer’s word about a suspect is an example of what type of knowledge?

Firsthand Knowledge

What is typically defined as a reasonable belief, based on fact, that a crime has been committed and that the person, place, or object to be searched and/or sized is liked to the crime with a reasonable degree of certainty?

Probable cause

What rule is associated with the requirement that most search warrants require daytime service?

Time Constraints of a warrant

In Florida V. Bostick, the court concluded that evidence seized during bus sweeps was admissible in court, when?

Only when consent is given by the owner of the seized item.

The principle that a suspect can be questioned in the field with ought a Miranda warning if the information the police seek is needed to protect safety is called?

Public Safety Doctrine

When a person is interrogated during custody, the requirement that police inform the individual of the right to remain silent, the consequences of failing to remain silent, and the constitutional right to counsel is refered to as what?

Miranda Rights

Which Supreme Court case established that the accused has the right to have counsel present post-indictment lineup?

Miranda V. Arizona

What is the name of the police investigation technique in which officers board a bus or train without suspicion of illegal activity and question passengers, asking for identification and seeking permission to search their baggage?

Bus Sweep

According to police psychologists, how many categories of police stress exist?

Two main categories: Operational Stress & Organizational Stress

What is the name of the nonlethal conducted-energy device that uses an electrified dart to administer a shock to an uncooperative suspect?

Tazer

What is a popular less-lethal weapon used by law enforcement because it shuts the eyes of a suspect and automatically induces shortness of breath?

Pepper Spray

What medical condition has been listed as the case of death in some use-of-non-deadly-force situations, particularly when the suspect was determined to be under the influence of stimulants?

Heart Failure / Heart Disease

What is the factor identified in the text as related to police shooting?

Fear of police / fear of police brutality

What is the proper term for the intentional use of firearm or other instrument resulting in a high probability of death?

Deadly Force

What argument is presented as a basis to justify racial profiling?

Fairness, Evidence / Basedness and Non-abusiveness

What provides information to decision makers about the changing nature of certain problems and threats for the purpose of developing response strategies and reallocating resources?

Crime Mapping

What type of forensics allows suspects to be identified on the basis of genetic material found in hair, blood, and other bodily tissues and fluids?

DNA Profiling

A formal intelligence-sharing initiative that identified security and intelligence-sharing needs in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks is the?

Office of Homeland Security

Which term describes the experience of black officers who must deal with expectations that they show lenience to members of their own race, while at the same time experiencing overt racism from their police colleagues?

Double Minority

In medieval England, what terms refers to a call for mutual aid against trouble or danger?

The Pledge System

In medieval England, the group of 100 families responsible for maintaining order and trying minor offenses was known as?

Hundredmen / Tythings