A warrantless protective sweep of a residence by the police who are making a lawful arrest in the residence is considered to be legal if the police have ________ that the residence may contain an individual who poses a danger to the officers or to others

A) a police hunch
B) a reasonable suspicion
C) probable cause
D) proof beyond a reasonable doubt


Answer: B

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a. Restorative justice b. Secondary victimization c. Victim blaming d. Lifestyle theory

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Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. In natural experiments, researchers are able to control the administration of the treatment. 2. Natural experiments include both a control and an experimental group. 3. Choosing an experiment design that is more rigorous over something easier to conduct is recommended. 4. A lack of spurious relationships is not enough to claim causality. 5. Gathering a population that is representative of the entire population is imperative to generalizability of research results.

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For Fourth Amendment purposes, a search is defined as:

a. a government official's trespass on private property. b. a police officer's attempt to obtain evidence. c. a government official's intrusion upon protected privacy rights. d. a government official's visual sighting of contraband.

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At what point would federal resources be used to respond to an incident, according to the National Response Plan?

What will be an ideal response?

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