Policing Agencies
The collection of agencies that are charged with protecting the citizens and communities., maintaining peace, and enforcing the laws of the different states and municipalities around the US.
What is Law Enforcement?
City, district, or county laws are examples of __________ laws.
What is local laws?
This federal agency monitors the US borders with Mexico and Canada.
What is The Unites States Customs and Border Protection?
A doctrine created to prevent police misconduct as it relates to search and seizures.
What is the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree?
An excessive use of violence towards someone by law enforcement.
What police brutality?
Three levels of enforcement.
What is Federal law, State law, Sheriff departments (police departments)?
Enforcement of traffic laws, respond to accidents and incidents on the state highways, investigate crimes that occur within the state, and assist local law enforcement agencies.
What is the functions of state police agencies?
This agency oversees how Americans use planes, trains, and automobiles to travel.
What is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)?
Inevitable discovery, attenuation, and good-faith exception are examples of ____________.
What is exceptions to the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree?
Protection for police officers against misconduct lawsuits.
What is immunity?
The main difference between the levels of law enforcement.
What is jurisdiction?
Two primary models of state law enforcement.
What is decentralized and centralized?
This agency has the responsibility of investigating on-the-job crimes at the Department of Justice and it has jurisdiction only within the Department of Justice.
What is the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)?
This amendment protection against illegal searches and seizures.
What is the fourth amendment of the US Constitution?
An officer's illegal action during the course of duty is known as _________. It also encourages officers to stand by their colleagues and discourages them to report police misconduct.
What is the blue wall of silence?
Officers not in uniform who do not typically patrol routes and instead work more in the investigation of crimes, including questioning witnesses and suspects and making arrest.
What is plainclothes officers?
Three distinct styles of policing?
What is watchman, legalistic, and service?
This organization is responsible for maritime security.
What is the US Coast Guard?
What are permissible legal reasons or ways to conduct a search and seizures?
What is consent or a warrant, plain view, and alert from a K-9?
The federal law that allows lawsuits against the police for civil rights violations is ____________.
What is Section 1983.?
______________________ is the authority that a government official or police officer has to make legal judgments or actions. May be defined in an area, such as state or county, or by the title held by an individual.
What is jurisdiction?
A _________ of _______________ is the unbroken line of authority that extends through all levels of an organization, from highest to lowest.
What is a chain of command?
This organization protects the president and other high ranking government officials.
What is the Unites States Secret Service?
___________ _________________ allows evidence that was seized illegally but would have been found eventually during a legal investigation to be allowed at trial.
What is inevitable discovery?
Stereotypes provide the profiles that police use to base their decisions.
What is racial profiling?