Chapter 5 - Police Technologies:

Timeline of Police Technology (Overview)

o   What general technologies were used first (timeline)?

Patrol Cars

o   What equipment is generally found in a patrol car?

Body Worn Cameras

o   About what percentage of LEA use body worn cameras?

Smart Sensors

o   What is the general purpose of ShotSpotter?

High-Definition Surveying

o   What is the general purpose of HDS?

Crime Mapping

o   What is the general purpose of crime mapping software?

Predictive Policing

o   What are the methods of predictive policing?

DNA Evidence

o   What year was DNA evidence introduced in court?

CODIS

o   What does it stand for?

Chapter 6 - Police Organization:

Police Department Overview

·         What size are the majority of police departments?

·         Historically, what has influenced the structure of a police department?

·         What is the general structural rank of police departments? (Focus only on Chief of department and lower)

Sherrif v. Police Officers

·         What are the main differences between the two?            

Aggressive Policing (Patrols)

·         Is there a difference between aggressive policing and zero tolerance policing?

Rapid Response

·         Does response time matter? Benefits?

Broken Windows Model

·         What are the key points?

·         How does disorder correlate to crime?

Community-Oriented Policing (COP)

·         What is the general basis of COP? What is the goal?

Problem-Oriented Policing (POP)

·         What is the general basis? Does it use a model?

Evidence v. Intelligence-Led Policing

·         What is the main difference?

Investigations

·         Investigator v. Detective

o   What is the difference?  

Chapter 7 – Issues in Policing:

Police Subculture

·         What is the Blue Curtain?

Police Discretion

·         What is the definition of discretion?          

·         What is low-visibility decision making?

Policing Styles

·         What are the four styles of policing behaviors?

o   What are the general definitions of each police behavior?         

War on Drugs

·         What are the impacts? (Hint: be detailed in your studying)

Redlining

·         What is the general premise of redlining? What did it do? Impacts?

Slippery Slope

·         What is the general premise?

Use of Force

·         Is there racial discrimination in police use of force?

·         Use of Force Continuum Levels

o   What interactions/use of force correspond with which level on the continuum?

Chapter 8 – Rule of Law:

Search and Seizures

·         What does not qualify as a search (does not need a warrant)?

Arrests

·         How does ‘arrest’ fit under the 4^th Amendment?

·         Terry Stop v. Arrest

o   What is the difference?

Warrants

·         Difference between search and arrest warrants

o   Who issues each warrant?

·         What are the requirements to obtain a warrant?

Warrantless Searches

·         What are the listed exceptions to the 4^th Amendment? (Hint: Be sure to be detailed in your studying)

Probable Cause

·         How is it defined?

o   Does the 4^th Amendment define is clearly?

Plain View Doctrine

·         What counts as something being in plain view?

Electronic Surveillance

·         What is wiretapping? Is it constitutional?

Interrogations

·         What Amendment is important for interrogations?

·         Issuing Miranda Warnings

o   Is there an impact on the number of confessions?

Pretrial Identifications

·         What are the lineup processes?

o   What is the most common technique used today?

The Exclusionary Rule

·         What is the Fruits of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine?

·         What are the exceptions?

o   How can they be defined?