What has occurred when actors intend to commit crimes, and do everything they can to carry out their criminal intent, but the criminal law doesn't ban what they did?
a. a legal impossibility
b. a de facto impossibility
c. a juristic impossibility
d. a factual impossibility
a
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According to Lyman, police departments control their officers by using ________
A) written guidelines B) the chain of command C) the internal affairs unit D) Both A and B E) None of the above.
Workers at Waldo's Worldwide Widget Works (WWWW) are on strike for better wages. The workers are members of the International Widget Works Union (IWWU). Each day about a dozen workers appear outside the factory and form a picket line
They carry signs demanding a pay raise from WWWW. The owners of the WWWW are refusing to bargain with the IWWU and have barred the union members from the plant. Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding this situation? A) Officials of the WWWW must provide written notice to the union to stop the picketing; if the officials refuse, the picketing workers may be arrested for criminal trespass even if not on WWWW property. B) To avoid violating the criminal trespass statute, the workers should conduct their picket line on property not owned by WWWW. C) The union members have a constitutional right to picket the WWWW on any location where they normally work. D) The WWWW owners may lawfully have the picketing workers arrested if their picket line is visible to any non-union workers on factory grounds.
When a subject is armed and poses a serious and immediate threat to an officer, which of the following would be the highest level of force allowed?
A. deadly force B. use of “less-likely-to-be-useful” weapons C. verbal commands D. bodily force
A new approach to training new officers as well as an alternative to FTO is the
a. Police Training Officer program, or PTO. b. Skills and Tactical training, or SAT. c. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities testing, or KSAs. d. First-line Advancement Trainings, or FATS.