pledge system
watch system
shires
hue and cry
thief taker
Sir Robert Peel
incident-based policing
clearance rate
differential response
preventive patrol
probable cause
EXAM 2 REVIEW
INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE
KNOW THE FOLLOWING TERMS and PEOPLE
pledge system
watch system
shires
hue and cry
thief taker
Sir Robert Peel
incident-based policing
clearance rate
differential response
preventive patrol
probable cause
Know the different historical eras of policing
What factors motivated early English authorities to create a police department?
Why did the police become more involved in the community in the 1970's?
Know the brief history of policing as discussed in the class and the text.
Know the functions of the different police units such as the investigators and patrol.
What is the average proportion of patrol officers in American police departments?
What are the three functions of patrol according to our text?
Know the difference between a proactive police response and a reactive police response.
Know the Amendments to the Constitution affecting police activity.
Closely study chapter 7 and the outline I provided on that chapter. Also, it would be a good idea to review all the examples we talked about in class used to explain the court cases regarding the exceptions to the need for a search warrant.
Under what circumstances can police conduct a valid search without probable cause?
Know the Supreme Court concept of balancing the states right to intrude on the privacy and individual right of citizens to be free from such intrusion.
Know what the Supreme Court doctrine of plain view means regarding searches.
When an officer is making a valid arrest but does not have a search warrant, what two rules must they follow regarding searches. Does the search have to occur at the time the arrest is being made and are there limitations on where they can search?
What is the significance of the Terry v. Ohio case?
An individual may consent to allow the police to search his residence but will the court uphold that consent for everybody? For example, could a child or someone mentally incompetent legally consent?
How long can a suspect be detained before he must be taken before a magistrate who will read him his rights? What Supreme Court case created this rule?
What is the purpose of the Miranda Warning and can confessions be given after the warning has been given and then used later in trial?
How can a court determine whether someone has been seized or arrested by the police? Do they have to be handcuffed? Or verbally told they are under arrest?
What is the exclusionary rule and what is the purpose of it?
What is the poison tree doctrine?
Recent Supreme Court decisions have found that search warrants that have minor mistakes in them are not significant enough to exclude the evidence at trial. What is the term used to describe these exceptions to the exclusionary rule?