Automatic video recording of the proceedings, using ceiling-mounted cameras with voice-initiated switching, is a step in attempting to improve the adjudication process
a. True
b. False
a
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It is difficult for police departments to measure individual-officer performance ______.
a. standards b. inputs c. outcomes d. knowledge
Discuss how officer characteristics influence the discretionary decisions of police officers.
What will be an ideal response?
The landlord’s refusal to grant police access to the apartment was:
Three college students who attend a public university share an apartment in Collegetown, USA. Police have heard that three members of the local college’s varsity swim team live there and have all recently failed university-administered drug tests. Police show up at the apartment hoping they can acquire to consent to enter. As they approach the apartment, police see that the landlord is standing outside the door. Police ask the landlord to let them in. The landlord, who is a lawyer, refuses, citing the Supreme Court’s decision in Chapman v. United States. Irritated, police instead knock on the door. One resident of the apartment is there and allows police to enter. In a common area, police find drug paraphernalia and a small amount of cocaine. They seize this evidence. Just then, a second resident of the home enters and tells police to leave immediately. They do leave, but take the evidence with them. a. an incorrect application of Chapman v. United States. b. correct in principle, but cited the wrong case. c. only valid because somebody was home. d. in fact consistent with appropriate Supreme Court case law.
Which of the following statements is most accurate concerning civil liberties and homeland security policy?
a. To achieve security, government responses must be proportional to the perceived threat and measured in how they are implemented. b. Civil liberties must “take a back seat” to homeland security policy. c. The U.S. Constitution requires the federal government to publicize the impact of homeland security policy on civil liberties. d. None of these.