Definitions 1
What is a Crime?
What is an act or omission (of an act) that is forbidden by law and considered an offense against the state?
What are res gestae statements?
What are spontaneous, unrehearsed statements made at the time a crime is committed & closely related to actions involved in the crime; considered more truthful than later, planned responses?
What is required for a search warrant?
What is Probable Cause?
What is Newsomenism?
What is:
Prepare in advance, listen & observe, encourage conversation, ask simple questions (one at a time), sit, eliminate barriers, build rapport, considerate & friendly?
What is a criminal investigation?
What is the process of discovering, collecting, preparing, identifying, and presenting evidence to determine what happened, whether a crime was committed, and who is responsible?
What is the difference between multi-jurisdictional & multi-disciplinary?
What is multi-jurisdictional: Uses personnel from different police agencies.
What is multi-disciplinary: Uses personnel from different fields
What are the three standards of proof?
What is reasonable suspicion, probable cause, and beyond reasonable doubt?
What are the crime scene search patterns?
What is lane, strip, circular, and grid?
What does Insitu mean?
What is In It's Original State?
What is Slanting?
What is including only one side of the story or only facts that tend to prove or support one side theory?
What is the Totality of Circumstances?
What is a legal standard that analyzes all available info & context surrounding a case?
What are the 7 types of Investigative Photography?
What is a crime scene, surveillance (trap photography), aerial, night, laboratory, mug shot, and lineup?
What is the ABC Model?
What is your consequences are direct results of your behavior?
Antecedent- the trigger, event, or situation that precedes the behavior.
Behavior- The action taken , or in cognitive models, the belief/intepretation of the event.
Consequences- the result, outcome, emotional behavior, response following the behavior.
What is Article 10 of police ethics?
Officers have to look for evidence that shows both sides
What is the Balancing Act?
What is the balance between individual liberties & the rights of society?
What are the 4 basic principles of COMPSAT?
What is: 1). Accurate & timely intelligence
2). Rapid deployment of resources
3). Effective tactics
4). Relentless follow up & assessment
What is The Elements of a Crime?
What are the Specific conditions that must occur for an act to be called a specific kind of crime?
What are minutes, inches, & miles?
What is minutes: minutes in resource time
Inches: The inches away from a vital organ
Miles: Miles away from the hospital
What are the exceptions to the exclusionary rule?
What is the Legal principle that established that the courts cannot accept evidence obtained by unreasonable searches, seizures, regardless of its relevance to the case?
What is the Inevitable Discovery Doctrine (Nix v. Williams), Good Faith Doctrine (U.S. v. Leon), Independent Source Doctrine (Murray v. U.S), Elephant-in-a-matchbox Doctrine, & Fruit-of-the poisonous-tree doctrine?
What are the 5 methods of crime scene sketches?
What is the rectangular-coordinate method, baseline method, triangulation method, compass point method, and cross projection?