Law Enforcement Administration
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Course Introduction
Law Enforcement Administration explores the principles, theories, and practices involved in the management and operation of police agencies and other law enforcement organizations. The course examines the organizational structure, leadership styles, human resource management, policy development, and community engagement strategies crucial to effective law enforcement. Students will analyze challenges such as ethical decision-making, accountability, budgeting, technology integration, and interagency collaboration. Emphasis is placed on contemporary issues and reforms influencing policing today, preparing students for leadership roles within the field.
Recommended Textbook Criminal Procedure for the Criminal Justice Professional 11th Edition by John N. Ferdico
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Chapter 1: Individual Rights Under the United States
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Q1) The primary significance of the Marbury v.Madison decision is that it:
A) created the judicial branch of government.
B) declared that it is the duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, and that this duty includes expounding and interpreting the law.
C) established the power and authority of the Chief Justice position on the Court.
D) applied the provisions in the Bill of Rights to state proceedings.
Answer: B
Q2) Which branch of the government has the greatest role in protection of individual liberties?
A) Legislative
B) Executive
C) President
D) Judicial
Answer: D
Q3) All ex post facto laws are retroactive.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Criminal Courts,Pretrial Processes,and the
Exclusionary Rule
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Q1) The main purpose of the arraignment is to
A) indict the defendant.
B) accept a plea from the accused.
C) set bail for the accused.
D) determine probable cause.
Answer: B
Q2) What is the limitation that exists on a prosecutor's discretion to file charges and to make a determination about what offense to charge?
A) The prosecutor must have an established record of making the same decision in substantively similar cases.
B) The prosecutor must have probable cause to believe the defendant committed the charged offense.
C) The evidence relied on by the prosecution must not be based entirely upon circumstantial evidence.
D) The prosecutor must have reasonable suspicion to believe the defendant committed the charged offense.
Answer: B
Q3) An affidavit can be described as a ______________.
Answer: sworn statement
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Chapter 3: Basic Underlying Concepts: Privacy, Probable
Cause, and Reasonableness
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Q1) A criminal informant's credibility (veracity/truthfulness)must always be established by a statement of underlying facts and circumstances.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) A criminal informant's credibility is never presumed but must be established.Usually,this is done by demonstrating the informant's __________ of having given accurate information in the past.
Answer: track record
Q3) Which of the following,standing alone,can serve as the basis for probable cause?
A) flight of a person from an area
B) furtive conduct
C) false or improbable answers to questions
D) observation and evaluation of real or physical evidence
Answer: D
Q4) Probable cause is evaluated by examining the __________ in the possession of the police at the time of the arrest or search,not merely the personal knowledge of the arresting or searching officer.
Answer: collective knowledge
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Chapter 4: Criminal Investigatory Search Warrants
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Q1) Which of the following items is not required on a search warrant form?
A) Name of magistrate
B) Owner of the place to be searched
C) Name of the officer or department to conduct the search
D) Time during day when search may be executed
Q2) A ___________ search allows items discovered during the execution of a covert entry warrant to be seized if there is a "reasonable necessity for the seizure."
Q3) Which of the following items is not required on a search warrant form?
A) Name of officer/department to conduct the search
B) Date of issuance
C) Magistrate's signature
D) Probable cause for the search
Q4) Which of the following descriptions lacks sufficient particularity to satisfy the Fourth Amendment?
A) Various obscene books, magazines and video tapes
B) Various instruments and tools used in perpetrating burglary, which were instrumentalities of such crime
C) All marijuana located on the premises
D) Homemade pipe bomb
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Chapter 5: Searches for Electronically Stored Information and
Electronic Surveillance
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Q1) ___________________ is defined as searches using wiretaps,bugs,or other devices to overhear conversation or obtain other kinds of information.
A) Electronic surveillance
B) Covert surveillance
C) Covert intelligence
D) The USA Patriot Act
Q2) When one party to a communication consents to the interception of the communication,neither Title III nor the Fourth Amendment prevents the use of the communication in court against another party to the communication.This is called
Q3) The statutory-based exclusionary rule in title III:
A) applies to wire, oral, and electronic communications
B) applies to electronic and wire communications, but does not apply to oral communications
C) applies to electronic and oral communications, but does not apply to wire communications
D) applies to wire and oral communications, but does not apply to electronic communications
Q4) Briefly describe what the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)is.
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Chapter 6: Administrative and Special Needs Searches
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Q1) Explain the differences between a criminal search and an administrative search.
Q2) The law of search and seizure in the college and university setting is best described as
A) consistent.
B) inconsistent.
C) consistent with those in the rest of society.
D) generally unlawful.
Q3) Federal law and the law of all fifty states provide for the collection of _________ from criminal offenders.
Q4) In the Vernonia School District 47J v.Acton (1995)case,the U.S.Supreme Court ruled a drug testing program for student athletes to be constitutionally permissible.The key to this decision was the notion that:
A) student athletes' expectation of privacy is diminished even further than non extra-curricular students in the general student body.
B) student athletes have no expectation of privacy.
C) the program was narrowly tailored to target students suspected of drug activity.
D) the program was endorsed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Q5) Define what is meant by a special needs search and give two examples.
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Chapter 7: Arrests, Searches Incident to Arrest, and Protective Sweeps
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Q1) The courts have ruled that a(n)_____ may occur without any physical touching if the officer makes a show of authority and the person to be detained submits to this authority.
Q2) The Gant v.Arizona (2009)case limited police ability to search a vehicle incident to arrest to situations:
A) involving an arrest for a violent crime.
B) where the arrestee/occupant is unsecured and within reaching distance of the passenger compartment or there is reason to believe the vehicle is not owned by the arrestee/occupant.
C) where there could be evidence of the crime in the vehicle or there is reason to believe the vehicle may be moved if not searched immediately.
D) where the arrestee/occupant is unsecured and within reaching distance of the passenger compartment or there could be evidence in the vehicle of the crime for which the person was arrested.
Q3) According to the courts,what is meant by excessive force used by a police officer?
How have the courts defined when force used by the police is excessive?
Q4) In a protective sweep,police are looking for _______.
Q5) Why are exceptions to the warrant requirement sometimes allowed?
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Chapter 8: Stops and Frisks
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Q1) An anonymous tip that a particular person at a particular location is dealing drugs is not,without more information,sufficient to justify law enforcement officers in stopping and frisking that person.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When a court must consider whether a particular seizure or frisk is reasonable or unreasonable,the court considers the inquiry from the standpoint of:
A) the citizen involved.
B) the reasonable person.
C) the average officer.
D) the individual officer involved.
Q3) ?Relying on the plain view doctrine,the Minnesota v.Dickerson ruling stated that officers could seize non-threatening contraband,such as drugs,if its identity as contraband is immediately apparent to the sense of touch.This exception is best known as the
A) reasonable grasp motion.
B) plain touch exception.
C) plain view doctrine.
D) one-motion grasp exception.
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Chapter 9: Consent Searches
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Q1) Without a signed consent form,the validity of the search is easily challenged.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In a consent search situation,the citizen consenting can tell the police not to go into a certain room,and the police must comply.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Campus police at a state college have facts leading them to believe that a college student has marijuana in her shared dorm room.They want to search her room without a warrant.They
A) may search it with permission of the president.
B) may search all areas of the room with permission of her roommate.
C) may search it without anyone's permission.
D) must obtain the suspect's permission.
Q4) A person may specifically authorize another individual to consent to a search of the person's property.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly describe what is meant by "common authority."
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Chapter 10: The Plain View Doctrine
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Q1) Describe the plain touch or plain feel doctrine.
Q2) Briefly describe the plain view doctrine.
Q3) The warrantless search of a residence is not constitutionally permissible simply because a homicide has recently occurred there.There is no _______________.
Q4) An officer responding to a radio call of a burglary in progress arrives at the scene in time to intercept a suspect fleeing with a television set in his arms.The officer arrests him and when assistance arrives the officer turns the TV over to see and record the serial number in his notebook.The officer's actions are
A) unlawful under plain view because there was a search.
B) lawful under plain view because the officer had already lawfully seized the TV.
C) unlawful under plain view because the seizure preceded the search.
D) lawful under plain view because the actions do not amount to a search.
Q5) Discuss the reasoning of the court in United States v.Barry,2005 regarding the warrantless search of a defendant's vehicle bases on "plain smell."
Q6) Name three mechanical aids or electrical devices that courts have ruled on for plain view searches and what,if any,limitations are placed on those devices.
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Chapter 11: Search and Seizure of Vehicles and Containers
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Q1) If an officer has probable cause to search a container after the container has been removed from a vehicle
A) the Carroll doctrine applies.
B) the Carroll doctrine does not apply unless the container is in the process of being returned to the vehicle.
C) the Carroll doctrine does not apply.
D) the Carroll doctrine does not apply unless the vehicle is readily mobile.
Q2) In Chambers v.Maroney,the Court extended the Carroll doctrine to include:
A) impoundment before search.
B) impoundment after the search.
C) no impoundment unless there is a search.
D) impoundment on separate probable cause from the search.
Q3) ?Officers driving behind a car observe the driver weaving across the double yellow line and apparently drinking from a can of beer.The officers are about to stop the driver when he turns into his driveway and parks the car in his garage.The officers
A) are too late to take any action.
B) are too late to make a Carroll search but may arrest the driver.
C) need a warrant or consent to search the vehicle.
D) may make a Carroll search of the vehicle and arrest the driver.
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Chapter 12: Open Fields and Abandoned Property
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Q1) Describe at least two factors or circumstances that a court would consider regarding the issue of abandonment.
Q2) Observations made from a vantage point in the open fields or a public place do not constitute a search for Fourth Amendment purposes,therefore,evidence obtained from these observations will generally be admissible in court proceedings.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Police on patrol receive a warning and description of a vehicle wanted in connection with a burglary.They observe the vehicle and begin pursuit.The suspects flee a distance and then stop the car suddenly,exit the vehicle,and flee on foot.Officers may
A) not search the car without a warrant.
B) search the car only per the Carroll doctrine.
C) not search the car unless they impound it.
D) consider the car abandoned and search it forthwith.
Q4) Curtilage is created simply by enclosing any area within a sight obscuring fence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Interrogations, Admissions, and Confessions
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Q1) ?The essential ingredient which must be present for a statement to be involuntary is A) pain.
B) police physical brutality.
C) police coerciveness in some form.
D) suspect's physical or mental impairment.
Q2) Miranda warnings are required to be given anytime a person is arrested.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Sometimes,suspects specifically invoke their Miranda rights in a narrow way,while acting in a manner that suggests they impliedly waive their Miranda rights with regard to other aspects of a case.These are referred to as _______________.
Q4) Some courts have ruled that a confession produced by ___________ is not necessarily involuntary.
Q5) Briefly explain the right to counsel clause of the Sixth Amendment.
Q6) ________________ occurs when state officials create "a situation likely to induce ...incriminating statements without the assistance of counsel ...."
Q7) What is the Miranda Warning?
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Chapter 14: Pretrial Visual Identification Procedures
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Q1) The next day after a robbery,the police bring the victim to the station to view a group of a half-dozen people in hopes the victim can identify the perpetrator.The most specific term for this procedure is a
A) lineup.
B) showup.
C) confrontation.
D) pretrial identification.
Q2) An eyewitness is much more likely to identify accurately someone of his or her own race than someone of a different race.This is called __________________.
Q3) A lineup should be conducted
A) as close to trial as practicable.
B) as soon after arrest as practicable.
C) as close to arraignment as practicable.
D) as soon after indictment as practicable.
Q4) Foils should be chosen for their dissimilarity to the witness's description of the perpetrator,with the suspect standing out from the foils.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Criminal Trials, Appeals, and Other
Post-Conviction Remedies
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Q1) The judge provides guidance to the jury after the closing arguments have been made.The judge may summarize the evidence for the jury members,help them recall details,and attempt to reduce complicated evidence into its simplest elements.This is called ____________________.
Q2) Out-of-court statements are testimonial-and,therefore,are subject to the Confrontation Clause.
A)True
B)False
Q3) State prisoners are permitted to file for federal habeas corpus relief:
A) at any time after conviction is entered as a final judgment.
B) only after exhausting all available state remedies.
C) at any time after the start of the trial.
D) only in situations that involve the Fourth Amendment.
Q4) The prosecutor's reexamination of the prosecution's witness in order to rehabilitate him or her in the eyes of the jury is known as
A) recross-examination.
B) cross-examination.
C) redirect examination.
D) direct examination.
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