Tactical Entry
The clearing technique where you look from cover with only one eye and part of your face.
This case established the requirement that police warn suspects of their Constitutional rights before custodial interrogations.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
The lowest level of criminal wrongdoing, also called a petty offense.
What is an infraction?
Latin term meaning "for the public good" often referring to free legal representation.
What is pro bono?
This US Marshal made his fame at the OK Corral.
Who is Wyatt Earp?
Clearing technique where you stand 6 feet from the opening and slowly lean out to expand your view.
What is slicing the pie?
This case created the objective reasonableness standard for search and seizure by police.
What is Graham v. Connor?
This type of crime is typically punishable by county jail time for one year or less.
What is a misdemeanor?
Latin term for the "guilty act".
What is actus reus?
This Prohibition agent and his "Untouchables" brought down Al Capone in 1931.
Who is Eliot Ness?
This is when an officer enters a room by hooking around the doorway thus staying on the same side inside the doorway.
What is the buttonhook pattern (entry)?
This case first applied the reasonableness standard to the use of deadly force by police.
What is Tennessee v. Garner?
This type of crime is typically punishable by imprisonment of more than a year.
What is a felony?
Latin term for the "guilty mind".
What is mens rea?
This former slave became the first black deputy US Marshal west of the Mississippi by 1875.
Who is Bass Reeves?
What is a crisscross pattern (entry)?
This case establish the police power to stop and frisk.
What is Terry v. Ohio?
This type of crime that is punishable by death.
What is a capital crime?
Latin term meaning "to stand by that which is decided," requiring courts to follow precedents.
What is stare decisis?
The first director of the modern Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
Clearing technique where you expose no more than your weapon and a small part of your body without entering a room.
What is limited penetration?
This case held that evidence obtained by illegal police searches is inadmissible in court.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
Class of crimes which result in physical or mental harm to another person such as assault or murder.
What are crimes against persons?
Latin term meaning "that you have the body," a writ seeking release from illegal confinement.
What is habeas corpus?
He was the first Fed killed in the line of duty in 1794.
Who is Robert Forsyth?