The Miscellaneous Category
Policing
Criminal Investigations
Crime Labs
Use of Force
100
Name two things that can effect a person's perception of the police.
What is race, prior contacts with the police, whether they've been a victim, whether they've been a violent crime victim, and how safe they feel in their neighborhood?
100
This policing method involves little contact with the community and relies on police radios to direct cars to emergency situations.
What is motorized rapid response?
100
During this eyewitness identification, detectives show pictures for witnesses to choose from.
What is a throw down?
100
This unit examines and collects hairs, fibers, ropes, plants, and soil. Investigators in this unit can figure out what criminals were wearing the day the crime occurred.
What is the Trace Evidence Unit?
100
This is the general rule about the level of force police may use.
What is whatever force is reasonable and necessary?
200
Describe why some believe that women make better police officers than men.
What is because they’re less confrontational and more adept at mediating disputes?
200
According to Officer Higgins, Council Bluffs uses this policing method more than the other.
What is community policing?
200
This is the one general criticism for all eyewitness identifications.
What is eyewitnesses are unreliable because the memory tries to fill in gaps that cannot be remembered?
200
This unit has played a major role in clearing innocent suspects and wrongly convicted prisoners. Investigators do their job by analyzing blood, saliva, skin, or hair.
What is the DNA Unit?
200
Name two factors that might get in the way of a police officer making a sound decision on how much force to use.
What is fear, anger, darkness, and split-second changes?
300
This unit of the local police investigates any reports of wrongdoing within the department.
What is the internal affairs unit?
300
According to this theory of community policing, cops find out what is bothering residents and then they solve those problems through arrests. This shows that a neighborhood has not been neglected.
What is the broken windows theory?
300
Describe two criticisms of using informants as an eyewitness identification.
What is most are criminals, they will say what you want them to say and juries don’t believe them at trials?
300
This unit has many different jobs from analyzing paper, to dealing with typewriters and computers. This unit can break codes and analyzing handwriting. It maintains a large collection of fraudulent checks, shoe prints, and tire tracks.
What is the Questioned Documents Unit?
300
Describe in detail what happened during the Rodney King situation and the riots that followed.
What is Rodney King was driving with two friends and had too much to drink? What is King did not get out of the car at first and acted strangely? What is King might have lunged at police officers? What is King was beaten after being subdued for 1 minute and 30 secounds? What is a riot broke out after the police officers responsible were acquited?
400
This unit of the local police force trains officers, keeps records, maintains equipment, and runs a crime lab.
What is the services unit?
400
This city utilizes a community policing model based on neighborhood watch. The basis of their model is a problem-solving partnership between the police and citizens.
What is San Diego?
400
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?
400
This unit has two distinct jobs. The first is to examine guns and ammunition to identify the gun used at a crime scene. The second is to examine tools and the marks left by them.
What is the Firearms and Toolmark Unit?
400
Name three of the seven factors police officers consider when deciding how much force to 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?
500
The United States is the only country in the world that does not have this.
What is a national police agency?
500
Name one criticism of community policing.
What is it costs too much, it does not have the effect on crime that has been reported (crime dropped everywhere), and some cops don't like it because it takes away from their job and they don't want to share their power?
500
If police investigations are not conducted carefully, evidence may not be allowed here.
What is at trial?
500
This unit combs crime scenes for fingerprints, palm prints, footprints or lip prints. Although in the past this unit would use dust, today technology allows investigators to use lasers and blacklights.
What is the Latent Print Unit?
500
Name two of the factors that must be proven if a police officer is to be acquitted of using deadly force.
What is the officer is making an arrest for a felony violation? What is the officer has made the reason for the arrest known to the suspect? What is the officer believes that deadly force is necessary to prevent the death of another person? What is the officer believes that the deadly force does not create a substantial risk to innocent persons? What is the criminal used deadly force or probably will use it if arrest is delayed?
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