Types of Contacts
Legal Terms
Amendments
Search & Seizure
Wild Card
100

A type of police contact that results in a person being handcuffed, charged with a crime, and transported to jail

What is an ARREST?

100

Permission that is given freely, voluntarily, and may be revoked at any time.

What is CONSENT?

100

The Amendment that protects people against unreasonable searches

What is the 4th AMENDMENT?

100

The types of searches from which the Constitution protects people

What are UNREASONABLE SEARCHES?

100

Code 9

What is a TRAFFIC STOP?
200

The term used to describe consent if it was obtained through coercion or other illegal means

What is INVALID CONSENT?

200

The term for legal justification of an arrest or search based on a reasonable belief that a crime has been committed and that the person investigated committed the same crime or evidence is present at that location

What is PROBABLE CAUSE?

200
The Amendment that guarantees the right to freedom from self-incrimination

What is the 5th AMENDMENT?

200

The term for the status of something that was seen from a legal vantage point, such as seen through a car window

What is PLAIN VIEW?

200

A traffic stop for an infraction is considered a ______________.

(Consensual Encounter, Detention, Arrest)

What is a DETENTION?

(it's only based on reasonable suspicion of the VC violation)

300

A type of police contact in which the subject agrees to stay and remain in contact with the police

What is a CONSENSUAL CONTACT (ENCOUNTER)?

300

A bona fide emergency (medical, fire, crime in progress) that would cause a reasonable person to believe that if the police did not intervene then public safety would be at risk

What are EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES?

300
The Amendment that guarantees the right from cruel and unusual punishment

What is the 8th AMENDMENT?

300

A court order granted by a judge giving officers permission to search something or someone

What is a SEARCH WARRANT?

300

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Prowler
400

A type of police contact that results in a person not being free to leave for the purpose of an investigation, but is not an arrest

What is a DETENTION?

400

A belief based on articulable facts or observations that justifies a detention in order to continue with the investigation further

What is REASONABLE SUSPICION?

400

The Amendment that bestows the States and the people with the power to make laws regarding topics that are not covered by the rest of the US Constitution

What is the 10th AMENDMENT?

400

Terry, Frisk, Pat Down, and Cursory searches are all searching for this

What are WEAPONS?

400

The advisement required before asking an arrestee any investigative questions

What are MIRANDA RIGHTS?
500

A type of arrest made or requested by a citizen and to be performed by the officer

What is a PRIVATE PERSON'S ARREST?

500
The term to describe what a person has in relation to the private interest of any property to give or keep permission from searching the same property

What is STANDING?

500

The name for the first ten Amendments in the US Constitution

What is the BILL OF RIGHTS?

500

A type of search made upon a person who has since been arrested

What is a CUSTODIAL SEARCH?
500

The oldest FEDERAL law enforcement agency

What is the US MARSHALS SERVICE? (1789)

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