Under Fourth Amendment law guiding the amount of force used during an arrest, which of the following actions represents use of excessive force?
a. using pepper spray on a recalcitrant suspect
b. using canine dogs to search for a fugitive
c. shooting to death an unarmed fleeing felon
d. placing a fighting suspect in handcuffs
C
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A. The parties have not consummated their marriage. B. That one party committed adultery. C. That there was a defect in the marriage at its inception. D. There is support in the church for annulment.
The presence of children during a domestic assault may allow prosecutors to file additional charges against abusers for endangering the welfare of a child, even if the charges against the primary victim cannot proceed
a. True b. False
A recommendation of the Katzenbach Commission was that:
a. the federal government should increase criminal justice expenditures to local and state governments. b. abstinence should be taught in schools. c. the federal government should decrease criminal justice expenditures to local and state governments. d. police officers should be required to wear bullet proof vests. e. every major police department should implement team policing.
______ are crimes that are unreported to the police. As a result, they are not represented in the Uniform Crime Report data.
a. Victimless crimes b. Open cases c. Dark figures of arrest d. Dark figures of crime