Exam 10: Policing and the Law

You are in a strange neighborhood,and a police officer drives by.He can clearly see that you do not know the neighborhood and are not from there.He stops you and frisks you because he just had a report of someone who looked like you with a knife.What level of justification did the officer use?

Which of the following is described as a pat down of a person's outer clothing done out of concern for the officer's safety?

Search incident to arrest is the first type of permissible warrantless search.

Explain what computer-aid drafting is and how it is beneficial to policing.

Which of the following would require the civil equivalent of probable cause?

Evidence of criminal activity cannot be detected using ________ search rationale.

Search incident to arrest is a ________ search that maintains the safety of arresting officers.

You see a person hastily throw something away in a trash can when he or she saw a police officer walking toward him or her.After you tell the police officer this,he reaches in the bag you saw and finds a gun.He then goes up to the person you say throw it away and conducts a search.What does the finding of the gun signify to the court?

The U.S.________ Court has defined probable cause as more than bare suspicion.

If a vehicle contains evidence of a crime,it is permissible to conduct a warrantless search.

Searches are performed to figure out where a criminal is located.

You need to get an arrest warrant from a magistrate for an offender you have dealt with before.You know the name and have a location.What requirement have you met?