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Law is a form of social control or a method of encouraging people to behave in a - ✔✔Certain way There are several sources of laws that govern the way we live in the United States, including constitutional law, statutory law, ordinances, criminal law, case law, and - ✔✔Civil law Constitutional law defines the form of government Americans have established; the Constitution defines our representational government and its three branch structure - ✔✔Executive,legislative, judicial constitutional law consists of standards set forth in the Constitution and of court decisions or interpretations of the Constitution handed down by - ✔✔The U.S district supreme courts Statutory law is written and enacted by Congress, state legislatures, or local governing authorities in response to a perceived need. Statutory law includes - ✔✔Civil,criminal,administrative and regulatory laws Within statutory law, some provisions define unacceptable behaviors and government
prosecution of those who commit them. These statutes are called - ✔✔Criminal law
The________ Amendment protects the freedom of speech, press, peaceful assembly, and religion. - ✔✔First The ________ Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms. - ✔✔Second The ______ Amendment prohibits unreasonable search and seizure and generally requires a warrant signed by an independent magistrate (judge). - ✔✔Fourth Law enforcement activities affected by the Fourth Amendment include law enforcement's _______ into homes, vehicles, luggage, purses, or other places where a person has a _________________________ including his or her person, and interference with people's right to possess and maintain control over their property - ✔✔Entry, Reasonable expectation of privacy Law enforcement stops and arrests, including the use of force on persons, are considered _________ and must meet the reasonableness requirement of the 4th Amendment, which provides certain exceptions to law enforcement - ✔✔Seizures The _______ Amendment is best known for prohibiting compelled self-incrimination. - ✔✔Fifth The term ________ broadly describes criminal or noncriminal acts that are punishable
under Florida law. - ✔✔Offense A _________ is any crime committed for which the maximum penalty is death or incarceration in a state correctional facility for more than one year. - ✔✔Felony A felony carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in a state correctional facility, a fine of up to $10,000, or both. - ✔✔1st Degree A ________________felony is punishable by a maximum of 15 years in a state correctional facility, a fine of up to $10,000, or both. - ✔✔2nd Degree A _____-degree felony carries a maximum penalty of _______ years in a state correctional facility, a fine of up to $5,000, or both. - ✔✔Third, 5 A ____________ is any criminal offense with a maximum incarceration penalty in a county jail of up to one yea - ✔✔Misdemeanor An offense for which the only penalty may be a fine, forfeiture, or other civil penalty is a noncriminal
detention. Reasonable suspicion is sometimes called "articulable suspicion" or "founded suspicion." - ✔✔Reasonable Florida's Stop and Frisk law, s. 901.151, F.S., requires probable cause before such a weapons pat down is permitted. Case law ( terry vs. Ohio ) however, has held that in this context the term probable cause means _____________________ - ✔✔Reasonable suspicion A frisk or pat down is not a full _________ - ✔✔Search The scope of the ______ is limited to a pat down of outer clothing, containers, and property being carried by the subject. - ✔✔Frisk An officer who conducts a valid stop and frisk as described above, and in the process feels an item he or she readily recognizes as contraband, may seize that contraband. Known as the ___________ - ✔✔Plain touch or feel doctrine Plain touch/feel does not permit any __________or groping of the object in an effort to identify it as contraband - ✔✔Manipulation
The two elements required for a lawful pat down or frisk are (1) that the subject is lawfully ___________ and (2) that the officer has ____________suspicion to believe that the subject possesses a dangerous weapon - ✔✔Detained, reasonable The duration of a Terry stop is limited to the time reasonably necessary to accomplish the purpose of the ______. - ✔✔Stop Sometimes, an officer may suspect that evidence of criminal activity is in a vehicle, but the officer won't have enough information for reasonable suspicion to make a stop. However, if the driver of the vehicle commits a traffic infraction, or if the vehicle shows evidence of an equipment violation, such as a broken taillight, the officer may stop the vehicle on that basis. Such stops are sometimes called ____________________. - ✔✔Pretext stops 2 types of evidence are _____________,_______________ - ✔✔Testimonial evidence, physical evidence Which of the two evidences are less reliable? - ✔✔Testimonial evidence
A court order to take a juvenile into custody - ✔✔Pick up order Civil processes are ____________ in nature and are issued by the court - ✔✔Civil process A abandoned vehicle is a vehicle without a known ________ or ________ responsible for the vehicle - ✔✔Driver or person When responding to a abandoned vehicle complaints, the initial concern is to identify public safety hazards, which may range from roadway __________ to a mobile _________
- ✔✔Obstruction, meth lab The most common sources of vehicle and owner information are the __________ and ______ - ✔✔License tag, VIN While on patrol or responding to a call, officers may encounter various types of roadway obstruction or damage, such as tires, animals, tree limbs, ___________, and downed __________ - ✔✔Flooding, downed power lines A UTC is used to enforce violations of ________ - ✔✔Florida statutes A vehicle is considered impounded when it is towed at the direction of _________ - ✔✔Law enforcement
Audio and video recorded statements must be made under - ✔✔Oath or affirmation A reports reflects an officer's competence and professionalism, not only in writing skills but also in all aspects of - ✔✔Police work FCIC - ✔✔Florida crime information center NCIC - ✔✔National crime information center ___________ is knowingly obtaining, using, or endeavoring to obtain or use property of another with intent to deprive, temporarily or permanently, the other person of the use of the property. - ✔✔Theft ___________ means to transfer or deliver something to another person in exchange for money or something of value or promise of money or something of value - ✔✔Sell Sometimes called "victimless crimes" these include offenses such as prostitution, gambling, alcohol and tobacco violations, and pornography. - ✔✔Vice crimes _____________ means to have personal charge of or exercise the right of ownership, management, or control over the thing possessed. - ✔✔Possession
Lividity is the ________ of blood due to gravity and leads to color change. - ✔✔Settling Chapter 825, F.S outlines the elements of _________, _______, and ____________ of elderly persons and disabled adults - ✔✔Abuse neglect and exploitation The outcry witness is the __________ person the child told about the abuse - ✔✔First _______________ is responsible for the enforcement of and maintaining civil order - ✔✔Law Enforcement Refers to the structure, functions, and decision making processes of those agencies that deal with the management and control of crime and criminal offenders - ✔✔Criminal justice ___________ is responsible for the interpretation of laws - ✔✔Court system _____________is responsible for enforcing punishment as defined by our court system - ✔✔Corrections Quid pro quo is a Latin term that means "________________________" - ✔✔Something for something else
Gratuity is anything of value intended to benefit the _________ more than the ________________ - ✔✔Giver receiver _______________ is a false statement that a person makes under oath but does not believe to be true. - ✔✔Perjury ______________ refers to the people and locations that make up the neighborhoods, institutions and businesses in the area where you work - ✔✔Community Command ____________ is an officer's demeanor and confidence exhibited by personal appearance, erect posture, alertness, and attention to surroundings - ✔✔Presence The process of _______________ involves managing and resolving a dispute rationally and effectively. - ✔✔Conflict resolution Transferred intent is present when an intentional act harms a unintended _________________ - ✔✔Second victim ____________ is consciously doing an act that the person knew or should have known was likely to cause death or grey bodily injury - ✔✔Culpable negligence
____________ not officially gang members but are accepted to some degree. They participate on a limited basis in the gangs social and criminal activities - ✔✔Associates Prospective members who are generally accepted by the gang. They are participating in a probationary period with hopes of becoming full-fledged members - ✔✔Prospect ___________ are overwhelmingly populated by young males between the ages of 13 and 23 - ✔✔Florida gangs ___________ members are often products of child abuse or neglect and come from a disadvantaged socio-economic background. - ✔✔Gang members Often, gang members are _________, _________, and frequently in trouble with law enforcement - ✔✔School dropouts, unemployed __________ stage. A solution is achieved - ✔✔Resolution A __________ may be a situation that is uncertain, difficult, or painful, especially - ✔✔ Off all the task assigned to a law enforcement officer, none is more important than conducting an __________________to bring a suspect to justice. - ✔✔Impartial investigation
As you respond to an initial call for service always preserve _______ first and then work to __________ , the scene for investigation - ✔✔Life, preserve Some of the most sensitive and disturbing crimes include ______, _________,__________, and the sexual battery of a child - ✔✔Child abuse, child neglect, child abandonment Mental injury is an injury to the intellectual or pyscological capacity of a child as evidenced by a ___________ and substantial ___________ in the ability to function within the normal range of performance or behavior - ✔✔Discernible, impairment Occurs when a caregiver deprives a child of, or allows the deprivation of, necessary food, clothing, shelter, or medical treatment, or allows the child to live in an environment when such deprivation or environment causes the child's physical, mental, or emotional health to be significantly impaired or to be in danger of being significantly impaired. - ✔✔Child neglect Is a parent, adult household member, or other person responsible for a child's welfare - ✔✔Caregiver __________ is consciously doing an act or following a course of conduct the suspect must have known, or reasonably should have known, was likely to cause death or great bodily harm - ✔✔Culpable negligence
A robbery is a theft plus _________. - ✔✔Violence There are three broad categories of causes of death: natural,_________, and __________ - ✔✔Accidental, criminal When any person dies in Florida by criminal violence, suicide, suddenly (when the person was in good health), accident, or through any suspicious or unusual circumstance, law enforcement must contact the ______________ - ✔✔Medical examiner __________ are transferred from the friction ridges on fingers by a foreign substance (not body residue), like blood, paint, or dirt, and are readily visible. - ✔✔Patent prints __________ are among the most valuable types of physical evidence and one of the most common types of evidence you will recover at a crime scene. - ✔✔Latent prints Although generally invisible to the naked eye, _______ result from body residues left behind Eileen the friction ridges of the hands or feet make contact with a surface - ✔✔Latent prints When recovering a firearm or ammunition at a crime scene, follow agency __________ and ___________ for handling such evidence - ✔✔Policy and procedures
___________ are commonly found at crime scenes and can often store vital evidence. You may also find __________ at crime scenes; However, you cannot access information contained in a cell phone unless you have a search warrant. - ✔✔Computers, cell phones The US Supreme Court, in Riley v. California, ruled that it is unconstitutional to search a cell phone without a search warrant unless there are ___________ concerns or__________________
- ✔✔Officer safety, exigency circumstances A _____________ is the lawful, temporary detention of an individual in a vehicle by a law enforcement officer for an investigative purpose - ✔✔traffic stop A _________ infraction can be either a moving or non moving violation - ✔✔Traffic A ____________ violation will be either a misdemeanor or felony. - ✔✔Criminal B-✔✔ It is unlawful to drive in Florida with a suspended, revoked, cancelled, or disqualified license. TRUE OR FALSE - ✔✔True Drivers licenses over the age of 21 are __________ - ✔✔Horizontal
