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100

This era of policing was led by August Volmer and focused on professionalizing the police.

Reform era

100

This agency was created by the Harrison Narcotic Act in 1917.

DEA

100

This type of false confession is not due to interrogation tactics.

Voluntary

100

This case requires police to 'read you your rights'.

Miranda v. Arizona

100

This delicious beverage is named after Mary Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VIII.

Bloody Mary 

200

In the system of policing created by Alfred the Great, these were larger sections of the kingdom similar to what we would call 'counties' today.

Shires
200

This was the first federal law enforcement agency.

US Marshalls

200

This is the standard of proof supporting a stop and frisk.

Reasonable suspicion

200

This case allowed for investigatory detentions or stop and frisk.

Terry v. Ohio

200

This country holds the record for the most lakes.

Canada

300

This type of undercover operation involves a police officer acting as the seller of illegal goods and services.

Reverse Sting operation

300

The US Air Marshals are part of this agency.

TSA

300

Good cop/Bad cop are also known by these two terms.

minimization and maximization

300

This case applied the exclusionary rule to the states

Mapp v. Ohio

300

This is the only city in the world that straddles two continents.

Istanbul

400

The political era operated on a system of nepotism/favoritism known as this.

Spoils system

400

British police get their nickname, 'bobbies' from this early police chief.

Robert Peel

400

This type of lineup is shown to be more effective and involves showing the witness one photo at a time.

Sequential

400

This case said that the 4th Amendment protects people, not places and gave us a reasonable expectation of privacy.

Katz v. United States

400

This individual is set to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill in the year 2030.

Harriet Tubman

500

This agency provides training for dozens of federal law enforcement agencies.

FLETC - federal law enforcement training center

500

The program that allows local police agencies to buy surplus and unused military equipment is known as this.

1033 program

500

This type of false confession involves the suspect actually believing their own confession.

Coerced-Internalized

500

This case gave us the inevitable discovery doctrine.

Nix v. Williams

500

In 1919, Boston, 21 people were killed and about 150 injured when a giant tank of this substance ruptured.

Molasses

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