Summary: Criminal Justice Exam 2

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• factors in the police discretion

  1. nature of the crime
  2. relationship between the criminal and the victim
  3. relationship between the police and the criminal/victim
  4. race, ethnicity, age, gender, class
  5. departments

• 3 styles of law enforcement

  watchman, legalistic, service styles

• 2 elements that define the police working personality

  (1) the threat of danger and (2) the need to establish and maintain one's authority.

• public safety doctrine

   A principle of personal injury law; that government owes duties to the public at large rather than to individuals

• when would a officer use totality of circumstances?

  to determine whether probable cause exists

• kyllo v. United States

  Thermal imaging of home from sidewalk is search under Fourth Amendment

• what does CODIS stand for?

  Combined DNA Index System

• forensic tools used by the police

  
  Disk and data capture tools
  File viewers
  File analysis tools
  Registry analysis tools
  Internet analysis tools
  Email analysis tools
  Mobile devices analysis tools
  Mac OS analysis tools
  Network forensics tools
  Database forensics tools

• Mornell v. Department of Social Services

  Individual public employees and agencies may be sued when person's civil rights are violated by agency's "customs and usages"

• graham v. connor

  The Supreme Court established the standard of "objective reasonableness." The Court said that whether deadly force has been used appropriately should be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene and not with the benefit of "20/20 hindsight." Officers have to make split second decisions in matters of urgency.