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Police and Law Test

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of 83 available terms

5 Written Questions

5 Matching Questions

  1. Warrantless Searches
  2. Act of Necessity
  3. Plessy v. Forguson
  4. Personal Stress
  5. Differential response
  1. a separate but equal ruling
  2. b special needs beyond the normal purposes of law enforcement, stop and frisk, search incident to a lawful arrest, exigent circumstances, consent, automobile searches
  3. c acquittal defense; you did because of circumstances you're forced to commit a crime to avoid a greater evil
  4. d can be caused by an officer's racial or gender status among peers; social isolation and perceptions of bias also contribute
  5. e system that assigns priorities to calls for service to help improve efficiency

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. situations in which police officers use their authority to deprive people of their liberty or property which must not be "unreasonable"
  2. taking something from a person or their immediate presence with force or threat of force
  3. the sending of Americans overseas to get information because they legally can't in the US (CIA practice)
  4. enforcing the law, maintaing order, preventing crime, providing services to the community
  5. the officiers acted with the honest belief that they were following the proper rules, but the judge issued the warrant improperly

5 True/False Questions

  1. pat down searchif police are in a place they have the right to be and can see an item that is immediate of a crime they cant take it

          

  2. Brown v. Board of Educationstates a law must be made public before it can be enforced

          

  3. Coping Delaysyou cannot leave the scene to call the police

          

  4. Aspects of Policinglimited authority, local control, fragmented organization

          

  5. Incomplete crimesdrugs and criminal organizations, public safety and terrorism, financial and high-tech crime, trafficking in human beings, fugitive apprehension, corruption