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A warrant that at any time the police can search the person's things, house, car, etc.
Search Warrant
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Evidence that can be added to a case
Admissible Evidence
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Supreme Court decision endorsing police officers' authority to stop and frsik suspects on the street when there is reasonable suspicion that they are armed and involved in criminal activity
Terry vs. Ohio
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Police employees who have taken an oath and been given powers by the state to make arrests and use necessary force, in accordance with their duties
Sworn Officers
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Acting in response, such as police activity in response to notification that a crime has been committed
Reactive
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An approach to policing in which officers routinely seek to idnetify, analyze, and respond to the circumstances underlying the incidents that prompt citizens to call the police
Problem-oriented Policing
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Acting in anticipation, such as an active search for potential offenders that is initiated by the police without waiting for a crime to be reported; arrests for crimes without victims are usually this
Proactive
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Making the police presence known, in order to deter crime and to make officers available to respond quickly to calls
Preventive Patrol
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Police components that directly perform field operations and carry out the basic functions of patrol, investigation, traffic, vice, juvenile, and so on
Line Functions
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A reactive approach to policing emphasizing a quick response to calls for service
Incident-driven Policing
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A proactive form of patrolling that directs resources to known high-crime areas
Directed Patrol
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A patrol strategy that assigns priorities to calls for service and chooses the appropriate response
Differential Response
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The percentage rate of crimes known to the police that they believe they have solved through an arrest; a statistic used to measure a police department's productivity
Clearance Rate
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The physical taking of a person into custody on the grounds that probable cause exists to believe that he or she has committed a criminal offense. Police may use only reasonable physical force in making an arrest
Arrest
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A patrol strategy designed to maximize the number of police interventions and observations in the community
Aggressive Patrol
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The police function of providing assistance to the public, usually in matters unrelated to crime
Service
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The police function of controlling crime by intervening in situations in which the law has clearly been violated and the police need to identify and apprehend the guilty person
Law Enforcement
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The police function of preventing behavior that disturbs or threatens to disturb the public peace or that involves face-to-face conflict among two or more people. In such situations, the police exercise discretion in deciding whether a law has been broken.
Order Maintenance
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A system in old English law in which members of a tithing, a group of ten families, pledged to be responsible for keeping order and bringing violators of the law to court
Frankpledge
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