MN POST TEST ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND

MN POST TEST (ACTUAL / ) QUESTIONS AND

VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS ( A+ GRADED ).

Special circumstances:

• weapons
• special knowledge (about suspect)
• injuries
• ground fighting
• disabilities
• imminent danger

excessive use of force ramifications - --Answers---- civil and/or criminal liability

• administrative discipline
• POST license revocation

per se - --Answers---by or in itself or themselves; intrinsically

Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment - --Answers---- Police study that found that changes to police presence did not have a significant effect on crime or change citizen satisfaction levels with the police 1 / 4

• crime prevention more highly dependent on willingness of

citizens to report criminal/suspicious behavior

broken windows theory - --Answers---visible signs of crime and disorder create an environment that encourages more crime and disorder, leading to more serious crimes

• tribal
• campus

, Ability, Opportunity

CPTED - --Answers---crime SARA model - --Answers---the scan, analysis, response, and assessment model used in problem-oriented policing

decentralized policing - --Answers---no central organization to law enforcement

• federal
• state
• county
• local

crime triangle - --Answers---Desireprevention through environmental design ("hard target")

UCR - --Answers---Uniform Crime Reporting 2 / 4

• maintained by FBI

- Part 1 (serious crimes): criminal homicide, rape, robbery,

aggravated assault, burglary, larceny theft, motor vehicle theft, arson

• Part 2 (less serious)

Length of detention - --Answers---Must be temporary and last no longer than is reasonably necessary to resolve the reason for the stop; results in release or arrest

search warrant time limits - --Answers---- execute/serve between 0700-2000 (unless night-capped_

• expires after 10 days

arrest warrant time limits - --Answers---felony/GM - any time day or night

misdemeanor - 0800-2200 unless night-capped, no Sundays, unless in public area

no expiration

Misdemeanor Arrest - --Answers---officer must have

witnessed offense, and only if:

• to prevent bodily injury
• further conduct will occur by not arresting 3 / 4

• probable that offender will not respond to citation

Search Warrant Exceptions - --Answers---- consent

• plain view
• open fields
• exigent circumstances
• hot pursuit
• search incident to arrest
• vehicles

Pretext stop - --Answers---A stop made by an officer on a basis of a traffic infraction when there is not enough information for reasonable suspicion to make a stop but for the purpose of investigating other, more serious criminal activity

bodily harm - --Answers---any physical impairment of the condition of another's body, or physical pain or illness

substantial bodily harm - --Answers---Bodily injury which involves a temporary but substantial disfigurement, or which causes a temporary but substantial loss or impairment of the function of any bodily part or organ, or which causes a fracture of any bodily part

great bodily harm - --Answers---Bodily injury which creates a high probability of death or which causes serious permanent

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