Police Responsibilities
These include enforcing laws, preventing crime, maintaining public order, and providing services
What are the roles of police?
This amendment protects against unreasonable search and seizure
What is the fourth amendment?
This strategy focuses on builing relationships and trust with people who live in the area
What is Community-based policing?
These are high pressure tactics to solve crime or gather evidence
What are aggressive investigations?
Using judgment to make appropriate decisions in situations
What is discretion?
Arresting people who break the law is an example
What is enforcing laws?
This says that evidence obtained illegally can't be used in court
What is the exclusionary rule?
911 calls are prioritized by on this method
What is differential response?
This is a controlled set up to catch a someone in the act of committing a crime
What is a sting operation?
Requiring tickets for anyone driving 10 MPH over the limit is an example
What is a policy?
This is where officers circulate throughout the city to deter crime
What is patrol?
This is a reasonable belief based on facts that a crime has been committed
What is probable cause?
This method may include sending a mental health crises team to de-escalate a situation
What is an alternative response method?
This is a person who gives police information about illegal activity, often for a reduced sentence
What is a Confidential Informant?
What are training methods
This type focuses on random routes and visibility
Terry vs. Ohio decided that police may do this with probable cause
This measurement is calculated by dividing the number of crimes solved by the number of total crimes reported
What is clearance rate?
Unreliability in court, a lack of formal training, and life-threatening situations are all examples of this
What are limitations of confidential informants?
According to the Shots Fired documentary, all officer involved shootings were all ruled to have this in common?
What is justified?
This type focuses on high crime areas using data and analysis
What is directed patrol?
This supreme court case said that police can't use deadly force on a fleeing suspect unless they pose a serious threat
What is Tennessee vs. Garner (1985)?
This method responds quickly to calls for service and reported crimes
What is incident-driven policing?
When conducting sting operations, officers must make sure that they do not force the individual to commit the crime, also known as this
What is entrapment?
Laws requiring officers to always act the same way in domestic violence situations
What are mandatory arrest laws?