NYPD 2nd Trimester Review
Exam Questions and Answers
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A charge of attempt to commit a crime will reduce the charge by?
- Correct Answer – One class
Who may issue an order of protection or a temporary order of
protection? – Correct Answer – NYC Family Court, NYC Criminal
Court, NYC Criminal Court
What is Order of Protection? – Correct Answer – Is legal order,
signed by a judge, that forbids a person from engaging in certain
behavior against the complaining party.
Procedures to follow regarding orders of protection? – Correct
Answer – You must ascertain that the order is valid and not
expired. Determine Probable Cause to believe that the person to
be arrested did violate the terms of the Order of Protection.
In situations where an arrest is made for a violation of any Order
of Protection issued by any court either in New York State or any
other state, the arrest will be processed in? – Correct Answer –
NYC Criminal Court
What is Domestic Violence?
Hint:
Children
Partners
Ex Partners
Family Members – Correct Answer – A pattern of intentional
coercive behavior that serves to main power and control.
Patterns of Domestic Violence may include what? – Correct
Answer – Physical, Emotional, Psychological, Economic, Sexual
Abuse
10-07 – Correct Answer – Verify address
What are some steps you should take when responding to a
Domestic Violence call? – Correct Answer – Obtain medical
assistance if needed or requested.
Take photograph using the Department Phone, FORMS
Interview persons involved separately.
Conduct an immediate search of the area when offender leaves
before police arrives
Request response of patrol supervisor if UMOS involved.
During Preliminary Investigation, the officer must ask these
questions and record the response on both the complaint report
and the DIR. – Correct Answer – If and where the offender is
employed.
Whether the offender drives a car and what type.
Where the offender is most likely to be found.
If the offender has social media
If alcohol or drugs were involved and what type of drugs.
10-31 – Correct Answer – Burglary in progress
10-53 – Correct Answer – Vehicle collision
10-93C – Correct Answer – complaint report prepared
Officers must prepare a DIR in all incidents that involve? – Correct
Answer – FCA Definition of a /family or the NYPD expanded
definition.
Allegations of Child Abuse
Elder Abuse can take many forms including? – Correct Answer –
Physical, Emotional, Sexual and Financial abuse.
They are designed only to determine whether individuals
committed the crimes of which the police collect evidence.
Hint:
In some countries, criminal justice systems are? – Correct Answer
- Inquisitorial
Occurs in people of all ages, sexual orientation, ethnic, religious
and social groups?
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Defense Types. – Correct Answer – Justification, Infancy,
99%/Mental Disease & Defect, Entrapment 51%
Infancy – Correct Answer – Defendant is not criminally liable due to
their age:
- less than 7: no criminal responsibility.
- 7-15: Juvenile Delinquency (13,14,15 certain felonies are
juvenile offenders) - 16 or older: charged as adults.
Entrapment – Correct Answer – Occurs when a defendant is
actively induced, encouraged, or lured by a public servant to
commit an illegal act.
Elements of an offense – Correct Answer – Written law – defining
the offense
Act – constituting the external physical part of a crime committed
by the offender.
Mental element – the offender’s state of mind toward the act.
Result – injury or potential for injury produced by the act
Causal Relationship – between the unlawful act, the result, and
the underlying mental element.
Attempt to commit a crime. – Correct Answer – A change of
attempt to commit a crime will reduce the charge by one class.
ex: Class A felony to Class B Felony.
Attempt – Correct Answer – Engages in conduct which tends to
effect the commission of such crime.
Forcible Touching (M) – Correct Answer – intentionally and for no
legitimate purpose, squeezes, grabs or pinches the sexual or
other intimate parts of another person.
Facilitating a sex offense with a controlled substance (F) – Correct
Answer – Knowingly give victim substance without consent.
Intent to commit felony sex offense.
Lack of consent. – Correct Answer – Mentally disabled
Mentally incapacitated
Physically helpless
Forcible compulsion
underage
office of children and family services
health/mental health care provider
correctional facility
vulnerable person
Sexual abuse (M) – Correct Answer – a person subjects another
person to sexual contact:
victim is over 10 but less than 17 yrs old
victim is incapable of consent for reasons other than age
(mentally disabled or incapacitated)
without consent
Sexual abuse (F) – Correct Answer – a person subjects another
person to sexual contact:
by forcible compulsion
victim physically helpless
victim is less than 11 yrs old
victim is less than 13 yrs old and the actor is 21 or older.
Aggravated Sexual Abuse (F) – Correct Answer – when a person
insert:
a foreign object (whether or not causing physical injury) or
a finger (causing PI or SPI) into another person’s
“PURV”
Penis
Urethra
Rectum
Vagina without consent.
Accessorial conduct – Correct Answer – acting with the mental
culpability for the commission of an offense.
Directs or aids another person to engage in an offense.
“acting in concert”
Individuals acting with the same mental state are both guilty of an
offense.
Statute of limitations – Correct Answer – class a and certain b
felonies = no time limit
certain class b and c,d,e felony = 5 years
misdemeanor = 2 yrs
petty offense = 1 yr
Purpose of the penal law – Correct Answer – forbid conduct that
causes or threatens to cause harm.
Intent
and
Motive – Correct Answer – the determination to an act
the desire to make you want to do a criminal act.
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NYS penal law – Correct Answer – defines the acts(what is legally
prohibited) and omissions(failure to do what is legally required)
that are defined as offenses in New York
Statute of Limitations – Correct Answer – a law that restricts the
period of time within which an action may be brought to court
Class A and certain Class B felonies: No limit
All felonies (besides Class A and certain Class B): 5 years
Misdemeanors: 2 years
Petty Offenses: 1 year
Clock starts after the commission of the crime
Four culpable mental states – Correct Answer – 1. Intentionally
- Knowingly
- Recklessly
- Negligently
Motive – Correct Answer – desire that prompts someone to do a
criminal act
Intent – Correct Answer – purpose to do a particular criminal act
Age of a child victim – Correct Answer – In instances in which the
age of the child is an element of the offense, It is NOT a legal
defense to state you didn’t know the age of the victim
Attempted Crimes – Correct Answer – A conviction for attempt
reduces the classification of crime by one class.
There can be no conviction for an attempt of an offense less than
a misdemeanor.
Exclusionary Rule – Correct Answer – prohibits evidence that was
obtained by an unreasonable search and seizure to be used in
court
“Fruits of a poisonous tree”
Where the 4th amendment protections extend too – Correct
Answer – Private homes
Curtilage(immediate area surrounding a dwelling)
Automobile-limited protections
Court recognized exceptions to a search warrant – Correct Answer
- 1. Search Incident to a Lawful Arrest (SILA)
- Plain View Exception
- Automobile Exception
- Search By Consent
- Emergency Exception
- Hot pursuit
- Stop Question and Frisk
- Inventory Procedure
Search Incident to a Lawful Arrest (SILA) – Correct Answer –
Police MAY search a lawfully arrested person and his immediate
surrounding area without a warrant. A search incident to arrest
requires:
1) A lawful arrest
2) Search must be contemporaneous with the arrest
3) Search must be limited to area within suspect’s immediate
reach or movement i.e. where he could obtain weapons or
destroy evidence
Protective Sweeps: Police MAY sweep an area for officer safety
or with reasonable belief that accomplices may be present
Inventory Search: Police MAY search arrestee’s belongings or
seized property with jailing an arrested suspect
Automobiles: After arresting occupant, police MAY search the
vehicle’s interior, including glove box, IF at the time of the search:
1) Arrestee is unsecured and may access the vehicle’s interior;
OR
2) They reasonably believe evidence of the crime for which the
arrest was made may be found in the vehicle
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Area’s Protected by the 4th Amendment CHAP – CORRECT
ANSWER – Curtilage
Home
Automobile
Person
What is Standing when it comes to the Exclusionary rule –
CORRECT ANSWER – Reasonable expectation on Privacy
What are the exceptions to search warrant requirements
SPACESHIP – CORRECT ANSWER – SILA
Plain view exception
Automobile exception
Search by Consent
Emergency exception
Stop question and possibly frisk
Hot pursuit
Inventory Procedure
What are the 3 reason we search after a lawful arrest? –
CORRECT ANSWER – Endanger
Escape
Evidence
Is the of luggable or grabble area automatic? – CORRECT
ANSWER – yes
Is search of undergarment automatic? – CORRECT ANSWER –
no
Who must approve strip search? – CORRECT ANSWER –
Arresting officers immediate Supervisor
or Bourgh Court Section Supervisor
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Receipt for Property Removed – Correct Answer – You must give a
receipt for any property you seize to the person who possessed
the property , whether the property was taken from their person or
the premises
Actual Possession – Correct Answer – – Individuals found in a
searched premise are in actual possession of contraband
Persons Named in the Warrant – Correct Answer – The warrant
may either specifically name an individual or provide a sufficiently
particular description of the person to be searched If officers
encounter the named or described individuals at the searched
location , officers may then search them for the contraband
specified in the warrant .
Pre Numbered / Barcoded Plastic Security Envelope PSE –
Correct Answer – Used for all small property items , except
evidence requiring serological examination ( blood , semen and
other bodily fluids ) , computer evidence , and jewelry .
Pre – Numbered / Barcoded Jewelry Security Envelope JSE –
Correct Answer – Used for jewelry items
Pre – Numbered / Barcoded Narcotics Evidence Envelope NEE –
Correct Answer – Used for invoicing controlled substances and
illegally possessed cannabis / marihuana .
Plastic Bank ” Deposit Bag ” And ” Deposit Slip – Correct Answer –
Used for invoicing non – evidence currency
FORMS Property Barcoded Label – Correct Answer – for securing
items that cannot fit in a bag / security envelope , including
automobiles / boats upper right hand corner 3 min photos
Property Clerk Invoice Worksheet PCI Worksheet – Correct
Answer – This is a handwritten form used by reporting members to
record and process property coming into police custody
Property Clerk Invoice PCI – Correct Answer – Property Clerk
Invoice is generated after the Property Clerk Invoice Worksheet is
entered into FORMS Property ( i.e. a computer printout ) .
Acknowledgement of Found Property – Correct Answer – form is to
be prepared as a receipt for people who turn in found property to
the police
Notice to Persons from whom Property Has Been Removed by
The Police Department – Correct Answer – This Notice contains
information to assist crime victims / complainants in recovering
property invoiced as evidence and will assist the DA’s office and
the Property Clerk Division ( PCD ) in expediting the return of
crime victims ‘ / complainants ‘ property . Property held as arrest
evidence by this Department may only be returned by PCD after
the owner has obtained a release from the DA The Notice informs
the crime victim complainant of the procedure to be followed in
obtaining a DA’s release for their property It is also given to a
prisoner finder or owner