101 Flashcards
The ADA defines a hearing impairment as what
Any degree of hearing loss
Autism spectrum disorder is a type of what
Pervasive developmental disorder that is diagnosed early in childhood
A mental illness is a what
An impairment of the mental or emotional consciousness
A person with an anxiety disorder may experience what
racing heartbeat, sweating, tension, and a feeling that something terrible is about to happen.
Baker act
Mental illness act
Marchman act
Substance abuse/drugs
Mentally defective
Disorder
Mentally incapacitated
On drugs
Physically helpless
Asleep/unconscious
Physically incapacitated
Handicap
Trafficking
Modern day slavery, sex trade/legitimate labor. Long term, and on going.
Human trafficking
Soliciting, enticing, providing a person for the purpose of exploitation
Cause of death
Injury specific
Manner of death
How injury led to the death
Grid search
Indoors, variation of strip line, search, pattern, overlap, and cross pattern
Strip/line search
Outdoor, divided into lanes, moving in both directions
Patent print
A foreign substance like paint, blood, grease, ink, or dirt, transfers, and makes readily visible, which forms from the friction ridge lines on fingers
Latent prints
Residue left behind when the hands or feet and make contact with a surface
Riley V California
It is unconstitutional to search a cell phone without a warrant
Learners permit initial hours of driving
6 AM and 7 PM and then 6 AM to 10 PM
Emergency response guidebook (ERG)
White is for information
Yellow and blue are for materials
Orange is potential hazards
Green is evacuation
How to determine jurisdiction
The first harmful event, or the event during a crash that caused injury or property damage will determine the jurisdiction of the scene, the AOC (area of collision) is the location of the first harmful event.
The ABS (anti-lock braking system) prevents the wheels from locking by doing what
electronically preventing the wheels from locking by rapidly applying and releasing the brake while allowing the driver to remain in control of the steering.
Offset skid
Mark indicates sudden change in direction of tire due to collision force
Non-contributing traffic violation
Has no direct bearing on the cause of the crash (expired license plate)
Non-traffic violation
Criminal offense found during the traffic investigation (discovering drugs)
DUI detection process
Phase 1: vehicle in motion
Phase 2 : personal contact
Phase 3 : pre-arrest screening
Horizontal gaze nystagmus (HGN)
Involuntary jerking that occurs as the eyes move towards the side. 12 to 15 inches from the drivers levels and slightly above the eye level.
Hazardous material class 1
Explosives
Hazardous material class 2
Gases
Hazardous material class 3:
Flammable liquid, and combustible liquids
Diamond shaped symbols/colors
Blue = health hazard
Red = flammability
Yellow = reactivity
White = other
Constitutional law
Separation of power ( legislative, executive, judicial)
Legislative
Makes laws
Executive
carries out laws
Statutory law
Written and enacted by Congress
Administrative law
Body of law that establishes the operations and procedures of government agency
Caselaw
The body of law farm by the decision of court system (judicial branch)
Felony 3rd
Five years, 5K fine or both
Felony 2
15 years, 10K fine or both
Felony 1
30 years to life, 10K fine or both
Principal in the first degree
Commits any criminal offense, aids, abets, councils, or persuades crime.
Accessory, after-the-fact
Person who gives the principal any aid to avoid detention or arrest
General intent
Forbidden act by offender ( battery)
Specific intent
Intention to the private owner of something (embezzlement )
Compensatory damages
Actual property damage (car accident)
Reasonable suspicion
Standard of justification needed to support an investigative stop
Illinois v Wardlow
Bing any suspicious area standing alone is not enough to suspect a crime
Terry, V, Ohio
Reasonable suspicion
Investigative stop: allows to do a frisk/pat down for weapons,
Two Elements/requirements: person has lawfully detained, have to have a reasonable belief the person is armed.
Carol V US
Carrol Doctrine is the rule
If you have probable cause to believe that there is crime evident or contraband you can search a car without a warrant
US V Ross
If you have probable cause then every part of the vehicle is open to be searched per Carrol and Ross
Minnesota v Dickerson
Has to do with Plain touch/plain feel: immediately recognized as contraband.
A bag of “weed”
Whren V Us VS Pretext stop
a headlight being out, look for drugs or something else.
Illinois V Gates:
totality of circumstances for probable cause
US v Robinson:
“ Search incident” to arrest case:
It’s the rule: 2 reasons why you’re allowed to search person: disarm a suspect or preserve evidence for the reason of the arrest.
Chimel v California
you can search is within immediate reach
Thornton
Search car after arrest
Belton
Trunk no search
Arizona v Gant
They have to be unsecure, look in car for evidence to preserve
Graham v Connor
objective reasonableness
Reasonable officers point of view.
Nervous system
Controls, voluntary and involuntary body activity
Involuntary muscles or smooth muscles
Carryout, many automatic body functions, they are in the walls of the tube like organs, ducts, blood vessels and intestinal wall
On infant
Check the brachial
Unconscious, adult or child
Checked the carotid
Normal breathing rate: adult
12 to 20
Normal breathing: child
15 -30
Normal breathing rate: infant
25-50
Contusion (bruise)
A closed injury that is discolored and painful at the injury site
Circulatory system
Pumps blood through the body
peripheral nervous system
Includes nerves that connect to the spinal cord and branch out to every part of the body
Arterial bleeding
Bright red blood, spurts from a wound (shepherd, or damage artery)
Venous bleeding
dark red with continuous flow
Capillary bleeding
Dark red slow, oozing flow of blood
Puncture wound
a soft tissue injury caused by the penetration of a sharp object
Laceration
Open wound that varies in depth and width
Evisceration
Open wound where the organs protrude
Avulsion
Flap of torn, or cut skin that be not be completely lose from the body
Abrasion
Scrape
Conscious adult or child
Radial pulse
Fine motor skills
use of muscles in fingers, toes, and eyes to coordinate small actions
Gross motor skills
motor skills that involve large-muscle activities, such as walking, running, punching or kicking
Complex motor skills
combine fine and gross motor skills using hand and eye coordination timed to a single event, such as driving a vehicle.
Reactionary gap
6-9 ft if hands are visible or 25 if you don’t
Evasion
Simply shifting your body or side, stopping to avoid attack
Redirection
Using empty hand techniques to move subject away
Stalling
a tactical method of safely controlling a suspect until you physically recover or reassess the situation, or backup arrives.
How many stalling techniques
4
Aggressive resistance
Is hostile, attacking movements that may cause injury, but are not likely to cause death or great bodily harm
Active resistance
a subject’s use of physically evasive movements directed toward the officer such as bracing, tensing, pushing, or pulling to prevent the officer from establishing control over the subject.