TCOLE 2 Flashcards
T or F: Alcohol helps to sleep.
False
What tends to reinforce prejudice concerning the group’s alleged inferiority?
Discrimination
Which of the following U.S. Supreme Court cases has been interpreted to limit the level of force that may be used by law enforcement to reasonable force?
Tennessee v. Garner
A seventeen- year-old boy engages in consensual sexual intercourse with his thirteen-year-old girlfriend. What crime, if any, has occurred?
Aggravated Sexual Assault
When the Magistrate sits for the purpose of inquiring into a criminal accusation against any person is:
examining court
What public official is responsible for conducting inquests in counties that do not have medical examiners?
Justice of the Peace
In _______________ the U.S Supreme Court first started actually enforcing the “exclusionary rule” against city, county, and state officials.
Mapp V Ohio
_______________ refer not only to the actual, corporeal and forcible detention of a person, but likewise to any coercive measures by threats, menaces or the fear of injury, whereby one person exercises a control over the person of another, and detains them.
Imprisoned
Confined
In Custody
Black’s Law Dictionary (7th. Ed.) defines __________________ as “a reasonable ground to suspect that a person has committed or is committing a crime or that a place contains specific items connected with a crime.”
Reasonable suspicion
The case law which allows for categories of evidence for which a search may be conducted may be found in:
Katz v. U.S., 389 U.S., 347 (1967)
The most effective and productive method of patrol is
one person patrol in automobile combined with effective foot patrol.
The maintenance of social order within carefully prescribed ethical and constitutional restrictions is the definition of
the police mission.
A person commits a _______________ if he intentionally or knowingly by words or physical action prevents the execution of any process in a civil cause.
Class C misd.
T or F: Every subpoena must be issued in the name of “The State of Texas” and must state the text of Rule 176.8(a).
True
“______________” means to sell, dispense, give away, or supply in any other manner.
Deliver
The holder of a wine only package store permit may employ a person to work in any capacity if that person is at least
16
If person knowing the character and content thereof, employs, authorizes, or induces a child younger than 18 years of age to engage in sexual conduct or a sexual performance, they have committed a ________________________.
2nd degree felony
What offenses may not be dismissed by taking a driving safety course? The offense charged is
26 mph over
To determine which person was operating a particular vehicle, the investigating officer’s best approach is to
place a hand on the vehicle and ask, “Who was operating this car at the time of the crash?”
Which of the following states is not a member of the Nonresident Violator Compact Act?
California
Which of the following is not an “authorized emergency vehicle?”
Blood bank or tissue bank vehicles any time.
Flat tire marks are generally
much longer than any car would ever skid.
The “prima facie speed limit” on a beach is ____ miles per hour.
15 MPH
Which of the following is not “exempt” from driver’s license requirements?
A person on active duty in the U.S. armed forces who has in his or her immediate possession a valid license issued in a foreign country by the U.S. armed forces for a period of not more than 120 days from the date of return to the United States.
A class C driver’s license permits a person to operate a single two-axle vehicle (other than a motorcycle or moped) with a gross weight not exceeding __ pounds.
26,000 lbs
A person must have at least a _________ driver’s license in order to legally operate a truck with a GVWR of 45,000 pounds towing a “farm-trailer” with a GVWR of 20,000 pounds.
Class B
The operator of a bus carrying passengers for hire shall proceed in which of the following ways after stopping within the required distances from a railroad grade crossing:
Without manually shifting gears while crossing the track.
A motor vehicle shall be equipped with at least two headlamps. At least one headlamp shall be mounted on each side of the front of the vehicle and each headlamp shall be mounted at a height from ________________.
from 24 to 54 inches
A _________________ is every device in, on, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a highway except devices used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.
Vehicle
Striations are narrow, parallel, light grooves, scratches, or stripes on a surface left by tire grinding, pavement grinding, or smear. Striations are generally associated with
centripetal skid marks.
