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20 Cards in this Set
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Internal affairs unit
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A branch of a police department that are more restrictive than traditional probation but less sever and costly than incarceration
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Latent fingerprints
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Impressions from the ridges on the fingertips that are left behind on objects due to natural secretions from the skin or contaminating materials, such as ink, blood, or dirt, that were present on the fingertips at the time of their contact with the objects
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Less-lethal weapons
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Weapons such as pepper spray and air-fired beanbags or nets that intend to incapacitate a suspect without inflicting serious injuries
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USA Patriot Act
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A federal statue passed in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that broadens government authority to conduct searches and wiretaps and that expands the definitions of crimes involving terrorism
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Affidavit
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Written statement of fact, supported by oath or affirmation, submitted to judicial officers to fulfill the requirements of probable cause for obtaining a warrant
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Exclusionary Rule
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The principle that illegally obtained evidence must be excluded from a trail
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Exigent circumstances
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When there is a threat to public safety or the risk that evidence will be destroyed, officers may search, arrest, or question suspects without obtaining a warrant or following other usual rules of criminal procedure
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“Good-Faith” exception
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When police act in honest reliance on a warrant the evidence seized is admissible even if the warrant is later proved to be defective
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“Inevitable Discovery” exception
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Exception improperly obtained evidence can be used when it would later have inevitably been discovered without improper actions by the police
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Open Fields doctrine
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Officers are permitted to search and to seize evidence, without a warrant, on private property beyond the area immediately surrounding the house
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Plain view doctrine
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Officers may examine and use as evidence without a warrant, contraband or evidence that is in open view at a location where they are legally permitted to be
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Probable Cause
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Reliable information indicating that evidence will likely be found in a specific location or that a specific person is likely to be guilty of a crime
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“Public Safety” exception
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When public safety is in jeopardy, police may question a suspect in custody without providing the Miranda warnings
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Reasonable expectation of privacy
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Standard developed for determining whether a government intrusion of a person or property constitutes a search because it interferes with individual interests that are normally protected from government intrusion
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Reasonable suspicion
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A police officer’s belief, based on articulable facts, that criminal activity is taking place, so that intruding on an individual’s reasonable expectation of privacy is necessary
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Search
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Officials’ examination of and hunt for evidence in or on a person or place in a manner that intrudes on reasonable expectations of privacy
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Seizure
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Any use by the police of their authority to deprive people of liberty or property
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Stop
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Government officials’ interference with an individual’s freedom of movement for a duration that can be measured
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Stop and frisk search
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- Limited search approved by Supreme Court in Terry v. Ohio that permits officers to pat down clothing of people on the streets if there is reasonable suspicion of dangerous criminal activity
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Totality of circumstances test
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Flexible test established by the Supreme Court for identifying whether probable cause exists to justify the issuance of a warrant
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