Foundational Amendments
This Amendment protects you from being illegally searched or arrested.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
The Elk Township Police Department is considered part of which level of government.
What is local or municipal government?
The first great code of laws consisting of 285 written laws dating back to 1780 B.C.
What is the Code of Hammurabi
A legal standard that must usually be met before police make an arrest, conduct a search, or receive a warrant. Often involves concrete evidence such as eyewitness accounts, physical evidence, or credible informants.
What is Probable Cause?
The burden of proof standard in a criminal case.
What is proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
This Amendment protects you from double jeopardy, self-incrimination, and also states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
What is the 5th Amendment?
This law enforcement officer is tasked with enforcing laws within a County, as well as managing county jails.
What is a Sheriff?
This person is considered the "Father of Modern Policing", believed that law enforcement officers should have professional training and a college education.
Who is August Vollmer?
Officers need to establish this in order to stop and frisk the outside of a person's clothing for weapons.
What is Reasonable Suspicion?
An agreement between the prosecution and the defense where the defendant agrees to plead guilty to the charges against them.
What is a plea bargain?
This amendment protects your right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury and also protects your right to counsel.
What is the 6th Amendment?
California Highway Patrol, Texas Rangers, and the Alabama Department of Public Safety.
What is the State-Level government?
The United States legal system evolved from this (the body of customary law, based upon judicial decisions that has been administered by the common-law courts of England since the Middle Ages)
What is English Common Law?
A writ, issued by a judicial officer, directing law enforcement to make an arrest, conduct a search, or carry out some other action for the administration of justice.
What is a Warrant?
A division of a law enforcement agency that investigates incidents of lawbreaking and professional misconduct attributed to police officers.
What is Internal Affairs?
This amendment protects you from a harsh or cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the 8th Amendments?
The FBI, US Marshals, and the ATF.
What is Federal law enforcement?
This historical era of Law Enforcement began in the 1970s and suggested that police officers get out of their patrol cars and spend more time on the street assisting citizens
What is the Community Era or Community Problem-Solving Era?
A sworn statement of facts that provides probable cause to the court for the basis of the warrant.
What is an Affidavit?
In criminal law, this refers to a method of operation or pattern of criminal behavior so distinctive that separate crimes are recognized as the work of the same person. (latin for "mode of operating")
What is modus operandi?
These two amendments establish the right of due process in the court of law.
What are the 5th and 14th Amendments.
The level of government has the highest percentage of public law enforcement agencies.
What is the municipal or local level?
In 1829, he helped create the first modern day police department in London, England and established his 12 principles of policing.
Who is Sir Robert Peel?
This rule states that if something was seized illegally during an investigation it cannot be used in a court of law as evidence.
What is the Exclusionary Rule?
The two types of law practiced in the United States.
What is Civil and Criminal?