Crime Statistics
Crime
Police
Search and Seizure
Trials
100
If you want to track patterns and trends of crime over time, I'm your crime data reporter!
What is the UCR?
100
This level of stealing is labeled as taking property you've been entrusted with.
What is embezzlement?
100
The criticism of this eyewitness identification method is that it gives the witness no possibility of choosing anyone but the suspect.
What is a show-up?
100
Officer Johnson is patrolling his neighborhood when he hears screaming and a gun shot. He quickly runs to the house and breaks down the door. He does not have a warrant. Name the 4th Amendment exception.
What is exigent circumstances?
100
Describe one of the following civil defense systems: contract counsel, assigned counsel, or the public defender system.
What is in an assigned counsel a judge appoints private attorneys from a list? What is in a contract counsel private firms are under contract with the government to provide legal services? What is in a public defender system, an attorney works full-time for the government, representing people who cannot afford a lawyer?
200
Choose increasing or decreasing: This is what has happened to the property crime rate and the violent crime rate since 1973.
What is decreasing?
200
This is when a police officer lures a defendant into committing a crime.
What is entrapment?
200
Name two things that can affect a person's perception of the police.
What is how safe a person feels in their neighborhood, prior interactions with the police, whether they've been a victim, and whether they've been a violent crime victim?
200
Officers Harrison and Washington are chasing Sara on foot after she was caught shoplifting at No Frills. Sara quickly ducks into her house. Without a warrant, the officers follow her into her private residence. Name the 4th Amendment exception.
What is hot pursuit?
200
The purpose of this step in a trial is to tell the jury your side of the story, introduce witnesses, and get the jury on your side.
What is the opening statement?
300
Define the clearance rate and describe what it measures.
What is the clearance rate is the number of arrests compared to the number of crimes known to the police? What is it measures police effectiveness?
300
Felony or Misdemeanor: Tom committed a crime, was found guilty, and now faces a 10 year sentence to be served in a state prison.
What is felony?
300
Name three of the many factors police officers consider when deciding how much force they should use.
What is the suspect’s weapon, the crime's location, the number of suspects, the amount of cover for officers, the presence of bystanders, the availability of backup and the distance between suspect and officer?
300
Kaitlyn is arrested for being a minor in posession of alcohol. She has a purse with her and the cops dump out all it's contents. They have no search warrant. Name the 4th Amendment exception that applies. Then decide whether this search was legal.
What is incident to arrest? What is, yes this search was legal?
300
Tell whether the following is a direct or cross examination question: "You killed your neighbor's dog on July 16th, didn't you?"
What is cross examination?
400
First define hierarchy rule. Then describe why the hierarchy rule is considered a limitation.
What is the hierarchy rule states that if an offender commits multiple crimes in a year, only the most serious crimes will be counted? This is a limitation because not all crimes are reported.
400
This ingredient of a crime states that the person must intend the act at the same time he commits it.
What is concurrence?
400
A criticism of this policing style is that it keeps the police too "divorced" from society and creates a bitter divide between the community and the police.
What is Motorized Rapid Response?
400
Restate the 3 parts of the 4th Amendment in your own words.
What is government officials MUST have (specific) warrants (based on Probable Cause) in order to search or seize people or property?
400
Name two pros and two cons associated with the public defender system.
Pros: What is PDs are zealous advocates for clients? What is PDs have more experience and knowledge than private attorneys? What is PDs know judges and prosecutors and what tactics to use to beat them? Cons: What is PDs have too heavy a caseload, causing them to dispose of cases too quickly? What is by working day-after-day with the same judges and prosecutors, PDs feel that they are on the same team? What is PDs are afraid to "rock the boat"?
500
This gang supression technique has police officers meet with gangs to inform them that if any violence is tied to their gang, the gang will be destroyed.
What is Zero Tolerance?
500
To prove this level of homicide, you must prove the defendent acted willfully, deliberately, premeditatedly, and with specific intent.
What is first degree murder?
500
This key idea of community policing states that cops should find out what is bothering residents and then solve these problems through arrests. This shows that a neighborhood has not been neglected.
What is the broken windows theory?
500
The Supreme Court decision in New Jersey v. T.L.O. gave us 4 major findings. Describe three of these.
What is schools are government agencies? What is schools do not have to get search warrants? What is schools require reasonable suspicion not probable cause? What is one search can lead to another search?
500
During this step of the trial process the defendant pleads to the charges brought against them and the judge informs them of their rights.
What is arraignment?
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