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Police Sergeant Exam NFLST Verified Correctly 100%14th ammendment - Answer due process of law
Arrest - Answer intention, authority, custody
Arrest warrant - Answer 1. Name of the state
2. Who will execute the warrant (normally any peace officer of that state)
3. Person who will be arrested
4. Offense Committed
5. Date, time, place of occurrence
6. Name of victim
7. Description of Offense
Mapp v. Ohio - Answer Established the exclusionary rule was applicable to the states (evidence seized illegally cannot be used in court)
Search Warrant Exceptions - Answer Consent, warrant, exigency, vehicle inventory, incident to arrest, motor vehicle, plain view
Chimel v. California (1969) - Answer search is valid of a person and area under him immediate control form which he could produce a weapon or destroy evidence
Carroll v. U.S. (1925) - Answer movable vehicle rule
Arizona v. Gant (2009) - Answer can search a vehicle when reasonable to believe will find evidence of the offense. Only in passenger compartment.
inductive reasoning - Answer factual and logical explanation of the crime
deductive reasoning - Answer hypothesis
neighborhood canvas - Answer helpful in about 20% of investigations
vehicle canvas - Answer get description, location, plate of vehicles in the area with description of anything suspicious ie blood, bullet holes, possible evidence.
Primary v. secondary scenes - Answer primary is where first criminal act occurred, secondary scenes are where all subsequent scenes occurred.
Evidence in "open view" - Answer processed before other items/bodies to make sure
no undue damage is done to families by media or common talk.
3 kinds of evidence - Answer Corpus delicti evidence - evidence that is needed to prove the commission of the crime Associative - connects the suspect to the scene or victim/ or connects the scene or victim to the suspect Police Sergeant Exam NFLST Verified Correctly 100%
Tracing - identification and location of the suspect such as a discarded ID at the scene.
Crime scene patterns (patterns or techniques used to search an area after the boundary has been determined - Answer Spiral, Grid, Strip/line, Quadrant/ or Zone, Pie/wheel
Digital photography (far/medium/close) - Answer Orientation - far, Relationship - medium, Identification - close, Comparison - close of evidence
Class characteristics - Answer not completely original, like the print of a Nike shoe
Individual characteristics - Answer fingerprints/footprints, etc.
Residue prints - Answer prints left on a hard surface from a foot, shoe, or tire.
Impressions - Answer prints left in something moldable like clay, dirt, snow, etc.
Plastic prints - Answer prints left in something "tacky" like silly putty, fatty foods, caulking
Patent/contaminated/visible - Answer fingers contaminated with an oily substance touch a clean surface
Latent/invisible - Answer unseen or hidden prints that are developed to expose them
Forensic ondontology - Answer intersection of dentistry and criminal law, i.e. bite mark analysis and identification.
Signature - Answer The striations on a bullet after passing through the bore of the barrel of a rifle or pistol
Touch DNA - Answer small amounts of DNA evidence left from suspect skin shavings after touching something.
Handwriting samples - Answer 15 to 20 samples should be collected from suspects
Objective of interrogation: (importance goes up as the difficulty goes up) - Answer Obtain valuable facts, Eliminate the innocent, Identify the guilty, Obtain a confession
Proximity - Answer distance between you and subject during interview (optimal proximity 27 in. for middle class white males)
Expectancy - Answer Bias when witness is not completely positive of an answer. They'll give an answer they would expect, or assume.
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