Constitution & Rights
This amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments.These first ten amendments protect individual rights.
What is the Eighth Amendment?What is the Bill of Rights?
A local law adopted by a city within its authority is called this.
What is an ordinance?
An officer asks to talk, and the person is free to leave. Name this contact.
What is a consensual encounter?
When safe and feasible, this approach reduces intensity and encourages voluntary compliance.
What is de-escalation?
Name one state and one federal law enforcement agency from the exam.This agency normally provides municipal law enforcement services.
What are Texas DPS (state) and the FBI (federal)?What is a city police department?
This amendment protects against unreasonable government searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This Texas misdemeanor class is generally punishable by a fine only.
What is Class C?
A temporary investigative detention requires this standard, supported by specific, articulable facts.
What is reasonable suspicion?
This case established the objective-reasonableness framework taught for force during a seizure.
What is Graham v. Connor?
This term means an agency’s legal authority over an area or matter.
What is jurisdiction?
This amendment protects against compelled self-incrimination.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
A person consciously disregards a substantial, unjustifiable risk. Name the mental state.
What is reckless?
During a lawful detention, this additional reasonable suspicion generally justifies a weapons frisk.
What is reasonable suspicion that the person is armed and dangerous?
Several officers give conflicting commands to an overwhelmed person. Name the helpful communication change when safe.
What is using one primary communicator and clear, simple instructions?
A neighboring city sends officers under an agreement to help during an emergency. Name this cooperation.
What is mutual aid?
This amendment protects the right to assistance of counsel in criminal prosecutions.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
A person acts with the conscious goal of causing a prohibited result. Name the mental state.List the four Texas culpable mental states from highest to lowest.
What is intentional?What are intentional, knowing, reckless, and criminal negligence?
A homeowner consents to a search of the garage only. Explain the limit on the search.
What is staying within the scope of consent—the garage only?
Resistance stops and lawful control is achieved. Explain what should happen to the use of force.
What is reassessing and reducing or stopping force that is no longer necessary?
An officer learns a coworker intentionally falsified a report. State the professional response.
What is reporting the misconduct through the appropriate agency process?
This amendment protects due process and equal protection under state government.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The prosecution must prove each required element to this standard to obtain a criminal conviction.
What is beyond a reasonable doubt?
After a lawful custodial arrest, an officer searches the arrested person’s clothing. Name the doctrine.Police have probable cause that a car contains a stolen television. Under the automobile exception, where may they search for it?
What is search incident to lawful arrest?What are areas in the car large enough to hold that television?
Name the three major Graham considerations taught in class.
What are offense severity, immediate threat, and active resistance or flight?
A dispatcher receives a crash report involving injuries and a fuel leak. State the best initial coordination task.
What is obtaining the location and hazards, then sending appropriate responders?