According to the Supreme Court opinion in Terry v. Ohio, involving a police stop and frisk of a citizen on a street to investigate a possible robbery:
a. in dealing with dangerous situations on city streets, police need an escalating set of flexible responses.
b. police cannot stop citizens without probable cause to believe that crime is afoot.
c. in any instance where the police can stop someone, they can also frisk that person.
d. police cannot stop citizens without clear and convincing evidence that crime is afoot.
a
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Computers in patrol vehicles have decreased total reliance on _______ to search for information
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What is true about the offender population?
a. There are more offenders in institutional corrections than community corrections. b. There are more offenders on probation than in jail and prison combined. c. There are more offenders on parole than on probation. d. There are more offenders in jail and prison than on probation.