TEST 3 Police Systems and Practices

How do most police officers spend the majority of their time

answering non-emergency calls, controlling traffic, and writing tickets

The majority of 911 calls are directed to

the police

A focused patrol might target certain

all of the above (times, problems, and locations)

Hot spots and hot times are identifies

through crime mapping

Which of these factors is a limit to the effectiveness of the officer in automobile patrols

the distraction of the act of driving

foot patrol and automobile have the opposite effects in terms of officer mobility and community rapport, with a middle ground being found in

bicycle patrol

What is the second most common activity of patrol officers

routine incident response

Once a motorist has been stopped, an officer can legitimately do all of the following described except

search the passenger compartment without consent

Police officers dressed in riot gear during a high-profile public protest

demonstrate a proactive step

what are quality of life offenses

infractions that demoralize residents by creating disorders

Collection trace evidence may be challenging for all of these reasons except which one

It gets old very quickly

The most significant problem with anthropometry was which of the following

It is not always accurate

Ballistics is the study of

firearms identification

What was the key event that made firearms identification a science

Its development of the bullet comparison microscope by Calvin Goddard

Pathologists, toxicologists, anthropoligists, and psychiatrists are types of

forensic experts

Verbrecherpech is likely to result in

a criminal making a telling mistake

The characteristics of undercover policing suggests that it would appeal to individuals who

are seeking a thrill

Adele just attended a training designed to help her recognize what she needs to do if she sees suspicious behavior while she is on volunteer duty in her neighborhood. Which of the following is she apart of?

Citizents patrol

Which of the following would seek to identify problem areas in crime, and determine creative solutions

problem-oriented policing

Which of the following parts of the 4th amendment would be used by a police officer to gather evidence in a criminal matter

search

Which of the following is characterized as the focus of a court's examination of the reasonableness of a search or seizure

Justification

Which of the following would be characterized as meaningful interference with an individual's possessory interest in that property?

seizure?

You are in a strange neighborhood, and a police officer drives by. He can clearly see that you do not know the neighborhood and are not from there. He stops you and frisks you because he just had a report of someone who looked like you with a knife. What level of justification did the officer use?

Reasonable suspicion

You pass a home that has a marijuana plant in a hanging planter on the deck. As a police officer, you stop and seize it, arresting the occupants of the home. They argue that Katz prevents you from doing so. What would be the ruling?

A plant on a deck is knowingly exposed to the public

Which of the following would meet criteria for reasonable suspicion

Less than a preponderance of the evidence, but more than administrative justification

Which of the following would be an example of a situation in need of an arrest warrant

a man is arrested for unpaid traffic tickets at his home

You need to get an arrest warrant from a magistrate for an offender you have dealt with before. You know the name and have a location. What requirement have you met?

Particularity

Which of the following would be used if police are in pursuit of a man who robbed a liquor store at gunpoint and ran into a house

hot pursuit exception

After impoundment, which of the following would occur as a warantless search

vehicle inventory

Which of the following is described as a pat down of a person's outer clothing done out of concern for the officers safety

frisk

Questions initiated by a police officer that are intended to incriminate a specific individual in a criminal matter are said to be which of the following

Interrogation

After a suspect is released from questioning for a certain period of time, he is no longer under the Miranda warning. How long is this period of time?

14 days

Why are police slow to accepting community policing

Because police officers are resistant to change

what is particularity in an arrest warrant

if the suspect's name is shown, then simply knowing the suspect's name is enough to meet the particularity requirement. If a name is not known, a sufficiently specific description of the issuance of "John Doe" warrant as long as officers can locate suspect with reasonable effort

What are the 3 search warrant requirements

A neutral, detached judge must authorize the warrant, probable cause, particularity

How long are miranda rights valid for

14 days

What are the crimes against people

murder, rape, robbery, assault

What are the 3 levels of justification recognized by the courts for searches

probable cause, reasonable suspicion, and administrative justification

What is the percent of reasonable doubt necessary

95%

Modern crime prevention aims to do all of the following except

Prevent all criminal activity