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Intro to Police Studies Final ExamCivil Liability - correct answer ✔✔When a person's constitutional or federal civil rights are violated. A
lawsuit can be filed.
Types of Civil Liability - correct answer ✔✔-Damages
-Injunctive Relief
-Section 1983
-Bivens Action
-State Torts
Criminal Liability - correct answer ✔✔Section 242: like sec. 1983 but criminal instead of civil.
External Accountability Measures - correct answer ✔✔-Civilian Oversight
-Complaints
-Accreditation
-Exclusionary Rule
-Prosecution
Internal Accountability Measures - correct answer ✔✔-Internal Affairs
-Trial Board
-Management and Leadership
Powell v. Alabama - correct answer ✔✔people facing the death penalty have the right to an attorney.
Monroe v. Pape - correct answer ✔✔police can be sued by sec. 1983.
Defenses to Civil Liability - correct answer ✔✔-Contributory
, -Comparative
-Assumption of Risk
Contributory - correct answer ✔✔if an officer can show that the plaintiff was negligent, then the officer
should not be held liable.
Comparative - correct answer ✔✔looks at who is to blame and assigns liability accordingly.
-Ex: officer 20% liable, plaintiff 80% liable
Assumption of Risk - correct answer ✔✔if plaintiff voluntarily engages in dangerous activity that led to
injury, then the police officer should not be held liable.
Corruption - correct answer ✔✔A form of police deviance...abuse of power or position by a police
officer.
Deviance - correct answer ✔✔any inappropriate police behavior.
Wickersham Commission (1929) - correct answer ✔✔A critique of law enforcement practices that
broadly employed torture and intimidation to force confessions.
Knapp Commission (1970) - correct answer ✔✔Uncovered widespread corruption in NYPD.
Types of Corruption - correct answer ✔✔-Straightforward
-Predatory
-Combative
-Perversion of Justice
Straightforward Corruption - correct answer ✔✔(Type of Corruption) Direct benefit to police.
Predatory Corruption - correct answer ✔✔(Type of Corruption) Proactively harming for benefit.
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