Exam 7: Identifying and Arresting Suspects

In ________________ profiling, also known as criminal profiling, an attempt is made to identify an individual's mental, emotional, and psychological characteristics.

Police officers are not authorized to make an arrest for any criminal activity of which they are suspicious.

Field or show-up identification is on-the-scene identification of a suspect by a victim or witness of a crime.The show-up must be:

After arresting a suspect, under what conditions are officers allowed to search the arrestee's home?

Briefly outline some of the options available to an officer for controlling someone with nonlethal force.

Gordon v.Warren Consolidated Board of Education (1983) ruled that using undercover officers in high schools was reasonable and therefore legal.

A field identification is also called a:

Facts gathered after an arrest to justify probable cause are legally admissible as evidence of probable cause.

Because race is part of a suspect's general description, racial profiling has been upheld by the courts as legal and constitutional.

Police powers to arrest or search are restricted by the Amendment.