BLEA EXAMINATION 2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Events that trigger officers to be sued - ✔✔Excessive force
Bad driving
Breaking down the wrong door
Arresting the wrong person
Arresting the right person without probable cause
K-9 unit dog bites
✔✔Events that trigger agencies to be sued - ✔✔Negligent hiring
Negligent retention
Failure to train
Improper training
Failure to supervise
Condoning sexual or racial harassment
Failure to treat employees equally
✔✔Reasonable Suspicion - ✔✔A legal standard of proof that is less than probable
cause. It must be on "specific and articulable facts" taken together with rational
inferences from those facts. Depends on the totality of circumstances! Does not provide
grounds for arrest.
✔✔Probable Cause - ✔✔The standard by which police authorities have reason to
obtain or issue a warrant for the arrest of a suspected criminal. A reasonable amount of
suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficient to justify belief that certain facts are
probably true.
✔✔The Constitution is made up of - ✔✔The Preamble
The Articles of Incorporation
The Bill of Rights (first ten amendments to the constitution).
✔✔Branches of Government - ✔✔Legislative
Executive
Judicial
✔✔Legislative - ✔✔House & Senate
(Makes Laws)
✔✔Judicial - ✔✔Supreme Court
Lower Courts
(Interprets Laws)
✔✔Executive - ✔✔President
Executive
, Cabinet Departments
(Enforces Laws)
✔✔First Amendment - ✔✔Freedom of religion
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Right to peaceably assemble
Right to petition the government to redress grievances
✔✔Second Amendment - ✔✔"A well regulated militia being necessary for the security of
a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
✔✔Third Amendment - ✔✔"No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any
house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be
prescribed by law."
✔✔Fourth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures of people,
their houses, papers, and effects
Warrants will only be issued upon a showing of probable cause
Probable cause must be supported by an oath or an affirmation
The warrant must particularly describe:
- The places to be searched
- The persons or things to be seized
✔✔Fifth Amendment - ✔✔Charges must be filed by indictment
Establishes a prohibition on double jeopardy
Prohibits self-incrimination in criminal cases
No deprivation of life, liberty, or property without our right to appeal
No taking of private property without just (fair) compensation
✔✔Sixth Amendment - ✔✔Right to a speedy trial - 60/90 day rule
Right to an impartial jury
Right to trial in the proper venue
Right to be informed of the nature of accusation
Right to confront witnesses
Right to subpoena witnesses on your behalf
Right to the assistance of counsel
✔✔Seventh Amendment - ✔✔Guarantees the right to a civil jury trial jury in accordance
with common law.
✔✔Eighth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibition of excessive bail
Prohibition of excessive fines
Prohibition of cruel or unusual punishment
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Events that trigger officers to be sued - ✔✔Excessive force
Bad driving
Breaking down the wrong door
Arresting the wrong person
Arresting the right person without probable cause
K-9 unit dog bites
✔✔Events that trigger agencies to be sued - ✔✔Negligent hiring
Negligent retention
Failure to train
Improper training
Failure to supervise
Condoning sexual or racial harassment
Failure to treat employees equally
✔✔Reasonable Suspicion - ✔✔A legal standard of proof that is less than probable
cause. It must be on "specific and articulable facts" taken together with rational
inferences from those facts. Depends on the totality of circumstances! Does not provide
grounds for arrest.
✔✔Probable Cause - ✔✔The standard by which police authorities have reason to
obtain or issue a warrant for the arrest of a suspected criminal. A reasonable amount of
suspicion, supported by circumstances sufficient to justify belief that certain facts are
probably true.
✔✔The Constitution is made up of - ✔✔The Preamble
The Articles of Incorporation
The Bill of Rights (first ten amendments to the constitution).
✔✔Branches of Government - ✔✔Legislative
Executive
Judicial
✔✔Legislative - ✔✔House & Senate
(Makes Laws)
✔✔Judicial - ✔✔Supreme Court
Lower Courts
(Interprets Laws)
✔✔Executive - ✔✔President
Executive
, Cabinet Departments
(Enforces Laws)
✔✔First Amendment - ✔✔Freedom of religion
Freedom of speech
Freedom of the press
Right to peaceably assemble
Right to petition the government to redress grievances
✔✔Second Amendment - ✔✔"A well regulated militia being necessary for the security of
a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
✔✔Third Amendment - ✔✔"No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any
house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be
prescribed by law."
✔✔Fourth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures of people,
their houses, papers, and effects
Warrants will only be issued upon a showing of probable cause
Probable cause must be supported by an oath or an affirmation
The warrant must particularly describe:
- The places to be searched
- The persons or things to be seized
✔✔Fifth Amendment - ✔✔Charges must be filed by indictment
Establishes a prohibition on double jeopardy
Prohibits self-incrimination in criminal cases
No deprivation of life, liberty, or property without our right to appeal
No taking of private property without just (fair) compensation
✔✔Sixth Amendment - ✔✔Right to a speedy trial - 60/90 day rule
Right to an impartial jury
Right to trial in the proper venue
Right to be informed of the nature of accusation
Right to confront witnesses
Right to subpoena witnesses on your behalf
Right to the assistance of counsel
✔✔Seventh Amendment - ✔✔Guarantees the right to a civil jury trial jury in accordance
with common law.
✔✔Eighth Amendment - ✔✔Prohibition of excessive bail
Prohibition of excessive fines
Prohibition of cruel or unusual punishment
