Describe in your own words the difference between an officer's "hunch" that criminal activity is happening and "specific articulable facts" that criminal activity is afoot
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Answers may vary: Such a distinction is very hard to make; Officer McFadden in the Terry case probably had a hunch that the three men were casing the jewelry store to prepare to rob it, but then confirmed his hunch by watching the men and their suspicious activity to confirm that hunch.
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a. Being respectful b. Individual beliefs c. Individual actions d. Individual feelings
By the seventeenth century, the northern colonies started to institute a civil law enforcement system that closely replicated the Greek model.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
All of the following are accurate statements about pretests and posttests EXCEPT ______.
A. in order to be an experiment, there must be a posttest B. in order to be an experiment, there must be a pretest C. some experiments have multiple posttests and pretests D. pretests provide a direct measure of change over time
______ are considered the first organized police organization in America.
A. Slave patrols B. Vigilantes C. Sheriffs D. Night watchmen