Exam 2 Flashcards
How many officers died since beginning of police creation?
14,000
Personnel Tasks
Interview, hire, train, tell you shifts, give you paid vacation, etc
What are the top circumstances of 911 calls for officer homicides?
Domestics &Pursuits
How many officers do we lose on average in a year?
12
1/6 officers killed w/ own weapons or other officers weapon.
Smart weapons: only fire w/ specific officer
Where is it most dangerous?
South
What are the weapons used in 2001 in officer homicides?
60 Firearms; 45 Handguns; 11 Rifles; 4 Shotguns; 1 Blunt Object; 1 Hand-to-Hand Combat
What were the officer actions during officer homicides?
39 Body Armor; 16 Weapon Ready; 12 Fired Weapon; 7 Weapons Stolen (From Crime Scene); 3 Killed w/ Own Weapon
61/69 arrests made in officer homicides
What are the Sac Officer a Related Homicides?
1995 Officer Mark White (Roseville PD); 1997 Officer Emily Morgenroth (Sac PD); 1999 Officer William Bean (Sac PD); 2006 Deputy Jeffrey Mitchell (Sac PD)
What officers are more prone to getting killed?
Those who are nicer and fail to wear body armor.
What are ways to avoid getting disease on the job?
- Protect hands/keep them away from eyes, nose, & mouth
- Don’t handle bodily fluids if you have an open wound
- Always use gloves
- No smoking, eating, drinking, or makeup application on crime scenes
- Carefully handle sharp objects
- Cleanse any puncture wounds w/ rubbing alcohol, wash w/ soap&water& receive immediate medical treatment
- Use pencils, gloves, &masks you can throw away, items should be incinerated.
- Use bleach mixed w/ water for non disposable items such as cameras¬ebooks
What are the 4 sources of police stress?
- External stress resulting from real dangers such as armed suspects
- Organizational stress, departmental related stress from scheduling, paper work, training requirements, etc
- Personal stress produced by interpersonal relationships of officers
- Operational stress, mounting effects of dealing w/ tragedies of urban life
What is the Warren Court?
Mainly active in 1960s, it focused on our rights and freedoms. It bound police to strict procedural requirements in areas of investigation, arrest, & interrogation.
What are the Bill of Rights?
The first 10 amendments to the consititution.
What are the 3 areas that contain strict due process requirements?
- Search and Seizure
- Arrest
- Interrogation
What is the 4th amendment?
Search and Seizure: the right of people to be secure in their homes and in their persons against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated & no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause based on oath describing the place to be searched or persons to be seized.
What three branches have a system of checks and balances?
Legislative, judicial, & executive.
What happened in Weeks vs. US case?
(1914) Agents conducted a search of home w/o warrant. Conviction overturned even thought gambling evidence found. Helped form basis of exclusionary rule.
What is the Exclusionary Rule?
Incriminating info must be seized according to constitutional specifications of due process or it won’t be allowed as evidence in criminal trials.
What’s the significance of the Silverythorne Lumber Co. V. US case?
It set forth the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine. Dealt w/ IRS agents that were ordered I return illegally obtained textbooks that they copied fr to find evidence of tax evasion.
What is the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine?
Excludes from introduction at trial any evidence later developed as a result of an original illegal search or seizure.
What’s the significance of Mapp v. Ohio?
Applied exclusionary rule to criminal prosecutions at the STATE level. Instead of searching for fugitive, police searched drawers and found porn which they tried to arrest Mapp for but was overturned.
What happened in Chimel v. Cali?
Ted Chimel was convicted of burglary of a coin shop based on evidence gathered at his house w/ only an arrest warrant from officers and no search warrant. Search becomes illegal when gone behind defendant & area w/n defendants immediate control & when conducted not to protect arresting officers, prevent evidence from being destroyed, and to keep defendant from escaping.
What was the Burger Court?
A new court under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger that chipped away at the strict applications if the exclusionary rule. (1969-1986)
What is the good-faith exception?
Exception to exclusionary rule. Evidence seized w/o warrant could be used if officer didn’t know he/she needed one or discovered later that a mistake had been made.
