Exam 6: Police Discretion and Dilemmas

Prior to the 2004 Republican convention in New York, undercover officers infiltrated activist groups that they believed might cause problems during the convention. Officers attended meetings, made friends, signed petitions, and then reported on the groups' activities to supervisors. All of the following ethical systems would reject this plan, except:

According to the text, the most common reasons for false convictions include all of the following except:

The use of physical force to obtain a conviction became illegal with which Supreme Court case?

Justifiable homicide is almost always performed by a _____________.

What percentage of police said that they lied about evidence to induce a confession, according to the text?

Recent studies of Oakland police body cameras found:

Define and describe what is meant by "reactive investigations." Give an example.

Which of the following statements about interrogations is true?

Tasers (CEDs)have generally been shown to reduce the risk of injury to officers.

Prior to the 2004 Republican convention in New York, undercover officers infiltrated activist groups that they believed might cause problems during the convention. Officers attended meetings, made friends, signed petitions, and then reported on the groups' activities to supervisors. The operation described in this case can be described as a(n)_____________ .

The classic father confessor approach to interrogations involves:

The fact that the suspect had a prior history of committing the same crime would be considered significant in the subjective test for entrapment.

Recent studies have indicated that as many as 5 percent of confessions extracted be law enforcement are false. You are a detective who is excellent at extracting confessions, and pride yourself that you have never extracted a false confession. You are training another detective, and she wants to know what type of deception is ethical, what is legal, and how you determine the difference. What will you tell her?

Characteristics correlated with use of force include characteristics of the target, situational characteristics, and characteristics of the ___________________.

Many law enforcement officers rely on informants to do their job. You are a law enforcement officer who wants to cultivate a good relationship with an informant, but you want to make sure the information that comes in is not tainted or coerced. Analyze how you will approach forming this relationship, its potential pitfalls, and the ethics of using informants in police work.

According to Klockars, lying to a mentally ill person by telling him/her that the police will take care of laser beams from Mars is an example of:

Asset forfeiture is often criticized for altering the emphasis of policing. As Attorney General, you need to come up with a program that will disincentivize police departments from seizing assets just to increase their budgets. What will your program be, and what ethical framework will it employ?

In _____________ police investigations, police officers initiate investigations rather than simply respond to crimes.

The term _____________ refers to a situation where an otherwise innocent person is enticed or encouraged by police to commit a crime.

Which of the following statements is true?