Describe how a civil asset forfeiture law is used to address a crime problem

What will be an ideal response?


A city ordinance authorizing the use of a civil asset forfeiture law could be used to target the physical assets involved in criminal activity. For example, a local resident might be trafficking cocaine out of their home. If the police were to arrest the individual and show that the cocaine was being sold from that house, the home could be seized by the prosecutor filing a civil action. Moreover, the county or city government would now own the house and be able to sell it and receive the proceeds from the real estate sale.

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Officer Pichler is a new officer working nights, who recently graduated from his FTO (Field Training Officer) program

One morning just before his shift was done, he saw a person driving 52 mph in a 20 mph school zone and so he wrote a citation to the errant driver for speeding. It was getting late and he needed to get the squad back to the station for the day shift so he decided to write his report for the speeding violation back at the station. Later, as he was writing the report, Officer Pichler realized that he forgot to retest the RADAR unit as he was trained to do after every RADAR citation. Officer Pichler ran outside and luckily found that the day shift officer was still in the parking lot. When Officer Pichler explained to the day shift officer what he needed to do, the older day shift officer said, "Just lie!" Officer Pichler was dumbfounded and after pausing, said, "It'll only take a minute." He retested the RADAR but wondered why the day shift officer was so willing to lie on the report. Which of the following statements is the most accurate to account for the difference in the day shift officer and the new officer's behavior? a. Unethical people rarely feel guilty because they deny, they justify, they rationalize, and they refuse to accept their share of responsibility. b. Only ethically aware people struggle with the distance between what they care about and what they're doing about it. c. This police agency's stated ethical codes are likely not consistently modeled or enforced. d. All of the above statements are correct.

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Mendelsohn came to the conclusion that there was usually a weak interpersonal relationship between the offender and the victim

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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How can biological attacks be used to hamper or deter U.S. intervention abroad?

a. A nuclear bomb would devastate millions of lives. b. Military in the Middle East do not carry around gas masks due to the heat, therefore they are susceptible to things like Sarin gas. c. Such strategies might involve the use of disease agents to attack troops or civilians, destroy U.S. crops or livestock, or contaminate the nation’s food supply. d. Someone could poison the food at a meeting of the UN and eliminate several national leaders at the same time. Western nations, then leaderless, would likely resort to anarchy.

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What is a neighborhood canvass, and how does it relate to a robbery investigation?

What will be an ideal response?

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