What characteristics of a suspect firearm should an investigator record before unloading it? Why should the investigator number the chambers and cartridges when unloading a suspect weapon?
What will be an ideal response?
The investigator should record the weapon’s hammer and safety position as well as the location of all fired and unfired ammunition in the weapon. The cylinders and cartridges should be numbered because this information may be useful to determine the sequence of events, particularly in cases in which several shots were fired.
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a. True b. False
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A. assertive community treatment model B. broker/generalist model C. strengths-based perspective D. clinical/rehabilitation method
Under the holding in Chimel v. California (1969), a leading Supreme Court case on searches incident to arrest, the police must limit a thorough search incident to arrest to the arrestee's:
a. person (body and clothing). b. person and the area within his immediate control. c. person and the room in which he is arrested. d. person and the house or apartment where he is arrested.
What factors are not accounted for when using probability sampling?
a. each member of the populations has a known chance of being selected b. knowing that each member of the population has a chance of being selected allows the researcher to generalize back to the population c. there is less need to be careful in the sample selection when the population is homogenous d. when the population is homogeneous, there is a greater need to use probability sampling than when the population is heterogeneous