Exam 10: Policing and the Law

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Column 1: administrative justification Column 2: special-needs or regulatory searches attempt to achieve protecting individualsʹ privacy and public safety

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?

Police must be very concerned about how they conduct searches in order to maintain arrests.

What would a doctrine that limits a search immediately following arrest to the area within the immediate control of the person arrested be called?

Which of the following would be characterized as meaningful interference with an individualʹs possessory interest in that property?

Reasonable suspicion is a level of justification below cause.

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Column 1: reasonable suspicion Column 2: standard for less intrusive stop and frisk

Which of the following would be an example of evanescent evidence?

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Column 1: government action Column 2: consists of measures to affect a search undertaken by someone employed or working for government

When police have probable cause to believe that a person they are chasing has committed a crime and is on the premises entered, upon what is the search based?

Reasonableness is the element of a situation that is used to a search or seizure.

In concern for the officerʹs safety, a frisk is used to pat down a personʹs outer clothing.

Which of the following would be used by the police to warn people about their control over police questioning?

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Column 1: seizure Column 2: confiscation of a person or property by a government agent

Probable cause is the standard for stop-and-frisk activities.

One search that can be conducted without a warrant is a plan -view search.

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Column 1: protective sweep Column 2: may be conducted by police to the point of arrest, but must be supported by reasonable suspicion

Match the following terms with their meanings. -Column 1: stop and frisk Column 2: detaining of a person for the purpose of an investigation

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

Courts noted that there is no justification for overruling Miranda.