Canada's RCMP successfully disrupted a bombing of the Provincial Legislature Building in Victoria, BC on Canada Day July 1, 2013, coming just two months after the Boston marathon bombings. Amanda Korody and John Nuttall, who both lived in British Columbia in a suburb of Vancouver had plotted to detonate pressure cooker type devices on the outside of the building—their intent was to cause mass
casualties as crowds gathered for the traditional Canada Day celebrations. The homemade bombs were packed with nails and bolts to cause widespread injury. The two had branded themselves as "al Qaeda Canada. What was their defense when this case went to appeal.
a. Diminished responsibility
b. Police entrapment
c. Coerced in to pleading guilty
d. Not guilty
b
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. A fatal flaw of ______ policing is the assumption that if the police simply collect as much information as they can, they will at some point identify suspicious activity.
a. intelligence-led b. predictive c. evidence-based d. CompStat-based
Police investigators said that the incident involving Smith stemmed from "drug and gang activity" and sparked no community outrage. Even so, the incident wold be seen as an offense against
a. society b. the powerful in society c. the powerless in society d. local community standards
If someone surveys several people today and finds that there is a relationship between fear of crime and prior victimization, this is a ________________________
a. cross-sectional design b. correlative quotient c. cognitive design d. quotient design
The U.S. Supreme Court held there is a constitutional right to privacy that protects individuals against state and federal government in ______.
A. 1945 B. 1955 C. 1965 D. 1975