Mind Games
A psychological response in which hostages develop empathy or positive feelings toward their captors — sometimes complicating rescue or post-incident processes.
What is Stockholm Syndrome
This city created the first organized municipal police department in the United States in 1838.
What is Boston
This long-running 1980s show followed detectives Crockett and Tubbs as they took on crime in pastel suits and Ferraris.
What is Miami Vice
This exception allows officers to search a vehicle without a warrant when they have probable cause that evidence or contraband is inside.
What is the automobile exception
This U.S. state was the last to join the union in 1959?
What is Hawaii?
The movie the Negotiator was released in 1998. Name the two main actors for this movie.
Who is Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey
This famous FBI Director served nearly 48 years.
Who was J. Edgar Hoover
This Fox series featured a counterterrorism agent named Jack Bauer who stopped threats in real time.
What is 24
This Supreme Court case established the objective reasonableness standard for police use of force.
What is Graham v. Connor
This Roman leader crossed the Rubicon in 49 BCE.
Who is Julius Caesar?
During negotiations, the primary mission is always this.
What is preservation of life?
This tragic 1965 incident highlighted the need for specially trained tactical police units and helped lead to the development of SWAT.
What was the Watts Riots
This ABC series features a woman who starts her law enforcement career later in life, joining the LAPD as its oldest rookie.
What is The Rookie
This constitutional amendment protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
In most cases a negotiator should never makes this type of statement — it risks escalating tension and losing trust.
What is a threat
What U.S. President famously said, "We don't negotiate with terrorists"
Who is Ronald Reagan
This CBS procedural featured an FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit profiling serial killers across America.
What is Criminal Minds
Officers are dispatched to a noise complaint. They find the front door open and hear someone yelling inside. Before entering without a warrant, they must be able to articulate this legal justification.
What are exigent circumstances (such as an emergency requiring immediate aid or protection of life)
This part of the cell contains DNA.
What is the nucleus?
The opposite of Stockholm Syndrome, this occurs when captors develop sympathy for their hostages.
What is the Lima Syndrome
Name the leader of the Branch Davidian cult during the Waco standoff / siege in 1993.
Who is David Koresh
Created by David Simon, this HBO series explored the drug war in Baltimore from the perspectives of both cops and criminals.
What is The Wire
This advisement tells a person they are not under arrest, are free to leave at any time, and are participating voluntarily, helping establish that an interview is non-custodial.
What is a Beheler advisement
This is the only planet that rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?