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Potpourri
100

Breaking and entering a building, locked automobile, or boat to commit a theft or other felony.

What is Burglary?

100

This level of law enforcement includes the LAPD, NYPD, Monroe County Sheriff, and Chicago PD.

What is local law enforcement?

100

This is the term for objects collected from the crime scene or the testimony of victims and witnesses that help establish the facts of a case.

What is evidence?

100

This is the number of Monroe County Correctional Facilities

What is 3?

100

The verdict in the People vs OJ Simpson

What is Not Guilty?

200

This category of crime includes Vandalism, Arson, Larceny, and Burglary among others

What is Property Crime?

200

A document issued by a judicial officer which allows a law enforcement officer to conduct a search at a specific location, and to seize specified property relating to a crime.

What is a search warrant?

200

When a witness knowingly and intentionally makes false statements under oath.

What is perjury?

200

Local detention facility in a town or county. Typically sentences are less than a year

What is a jail?
200

This category of crime includes prostitution, drug crimes, and illegal gambling.

What is victimless crime?

300

The illegal killing of four or more victims at one location, within one event is classified as this type of murder.

What is mass Murder?

300

Federal law enforcement agency that fights the production, transport, sale, and use of illicit controlled substances (drugs).

What is the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)?

300

When a defendant agrees to plead guilty to lesser charges, thereby avoiding a trial.

What is a plea bargain?

300

Term for the area that houses inmates who are awaiting execution.

What is death row?

300

The FBI's Uniform Crime Report and other crime data is usually based on these

What are victims reports to police?

400

This crime is defined as an action that causes unintentional or accidental death of another person.

What is Involuntary Manslaughter?

400

A document issued by a court directing that a law enforcement officer bring the person named therein before the court, usually one who has failed to obey a court order or a notice to appear.

What is an arrest warrant?

400

This Amendment to the US Constitution grants all citizens the right to a speedy trial

What is the 6th Amendment?

400

Early discharge of an inmate who has already served the minimum duration of an indeterminate sentence.

What is Parole?

400

The US has 5% of the world's population but this much of its prisoners.

What is 25%

500

The type of theft is defined as taking of personal property by threat of future harm.

What is Extortion?

500

The set of rights that guarantees a suspect the right to consult a lawyer during questioning by police.

What are Miranda Rights?

500

This exception to the Exclusionary rule allows law enforcement officers who conduct a search or seize evidence believing that they are operating according to the dictates of the law and who later discover that a mistake was made may still use evidence seized as the result of such activities in court.

What is the Good Faith Exception?

500

Instead of incarceration, discharging a first time offender convicted of a lesser crime, who poses little threat to society, on the promise of good behavior

What is probation?

500

This Amendment to the US Constitution outlaws slavery except as punishment for a crime.

What is the 13th Amendment?