Police Basics
The routine duty of officers walking or driving through assigned areas.
What is patrol?
This amendment guarantees the freedom of speech to all US citizens.
What is the 1st Amendment?
This device is used to measure a vehicle's speed.
What is a radar?
The name of a person believed to have committed a crime.
What is a suspect?
The act of taking someone into custody for a suspected crime.
What is an arrest?
The emergency phone number used to reach the police in the United States.
What is 911?
This amendment protects citizens from unlawful searches and seizures of property.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This safety equipment protects officers from potential head injuries.
What is a helmet?
Physical objects or information collected to help solve a crime.
What is evidence?
The documented process showing who handled evidence and when.
What is chain of custody?
This term refers to the legal authority to believe a crime has been committed.
What is probable cause?
These rights inform suspects they may remain silent and have an attorney. They gained their name from a landmark Supreme Court case in 1966.
What are Miranda Rights?
A commonly used non-lethal weapon that delivers an electric shock.
What is a taser?
A claim that a suspect was somewhere else when a crime was committed.
What is an alibi?
A procedure where witnesses identify a suspect from a group of people.
What is a lineup?
The official document authorizing police to make an arrest or conduct a search.
What is a warrant?
This amendment protects individuals from self incrimination.
What is the 5th Amendment?
These metal restraints are used to secure a subject's wrists.
What are handcuffs?
The scientific method used to match fingerprints to and individual.
What is fingerprint analysis?
This formal written report documents an officer’s actions, observations, and evidence after an incident.
What is an incident report?
This foundational principle means police authority comes from the public they serve, not from force alone.
What is consent of the governed?
Police must read Miranda Rights when a suspect is detained and before they do this.
What is questioning?
This device, worn on the chest of police officers, records interactions between an officer and the public.
What is a body-cam?
Evidence, such as blood, hair, or saliva, having to do with the human body.
What is biological evidence?
This rule requires illegally obtained evidence to be excluded from court proceedings.
What is the exclusionary rule?