TLETA Week 2 Exam 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• Perkin v. Harris - What should officers receive on foreseeable activities? -✓✓ Officers
should receive training and information on foreseeable activities.
• If you act within the scope of your department policy, who will be held liable for
accidents caused on your part? -✓✓ The department.
• Governmental entity definition? -✓✓ Any national, state or local government board,
commission, department, division, instrumentality, court, agency or political subdivision.
• What three things does the supreme court take into consideration when determining
liability? -✓✓ Reasonableness, justifiable, articutible.(be able to articulate and justify
what you did.)
• Negligence definition? -✓✓ Failure to take proper care in doing something.(mistake)
• What are the levels of liability? -✓✓ Negligence, Gross Negligence, Deliberate
indifference, Conduct that shocks the conscience.
• Gross Negligence definition? -✓✓ Lack of diligence, care, or conscious, in a voluntary
act or omission with reckless disregard of legal duty or consequences to another party.
• Deliberate indifference definition? -✓✓ Complete consciousness of reckless disregard
and consequence of one's acts or omissions.
• Conduct that shocks the conscience definition? -✓✓ Situations conducted in complete
carelessness of the law that are so unjust or wrong that the court must intervene.
• What are Plaintiffs 5- Front attacks? -✓✓ Facts of the case, policy, training,
supervision, and discipline.
• Do you have the right away when operating an emergency vehicle? -✓✓ No, when
operating an emergency you are requesting right away.
• Who is responsible for accidents caused during emergency vehicle operations? -✓✓
The operator of emergency vehicle.
• Are officers responsible for accidents of negligence? -✓✓ Yes.
• What does the liability of accidents hinge on during police pursuits? -✓✓ The decision
making of the officer.
, • Why are patrol officers liable for unsafe roads, controls, and structures? -✓✓ It is the
officers duty to report these condition due to the fact they are on patrol 24 hours a day.
• What are Punitive Damages? -✓✓ Personal penalties against an INDIVIDUAL in
federal court. They are excluded from state court.
• What happens if any employee of any government agency, entity, or department,
deprives anyone of there constitutional rights? -✓✓ They or their employer are subject
to be sued in Federal court Depending on their regard for statutes, policy, and
regulations.
• Is there any cap on the amount a defendant can be sued for in federal court? -✓✓ No.
• Who May bring a suit? -✓✓ Anyone.
• Who May be a defendant? -✓✓ Anyone acting under the color of the law.
• What an employees best protection from being individually liable? -✓✓ Written Policy.
• What is the liability of other officers present when a civil rights violation takes place? -
✓✓ Equal punishment.
• What are the two highest law suits brought upon law enforcement? -✓✓ Use of
excessive force, and false arrest/ false imprisonment.
• Brower v. county of Inyo. what is said about use of roadblocks? -✓✓ They will always
be used as a last resort.
• What is the most effective survival tool in law enforcement in which could change the
opinion of society and they way they perceive you? -✓✓ Word of mouth.
• What are the two most effective poisons law enforcement administers to itself? -✓✓
Stretches of authority, and seeds of distrust.
• What are the three most effective disciplines? -✓✓ Self discipline, peer discipline, and
administrative discipline.
• Confession definition? -✓✓ Admitting to all elements of an offense.
• Admission definition? -✓✓ Admitting to some elements of an offense but not all.
• Statement definition? -✓✓ Anything thing suspect says other than a confession or
admission.
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• Perkin v. Harris - What should officers receive on foreseeable activities? -✓✓ Officers
should receive training and information on foreseeable activities.
• If you act within the scope of your department policy, who will be held liable for
accidents caused on your part? -✓✓ The department.
• Governmental entity definition? -✓✓ Any national, state or local government board,
commission, department, division, instrumentality, court, agency or political subdivision.
• What three things does the supreme court take into consideration when determining
liability? -✓✓ Reasonableness, justifiable, articutible.(be able to articulate and justify
what you did.)
• Negligence definition? -✓✓ Failure to take proper care in doing something.(mistake)
• What are the levels of liability? -✓✓ Negligence, Gross Negligence, Deliberate
indifference, Conduct that shocks the conscience.
• Gross Negligence definition? -✓✓ Lack of diligence, care, or conscious, in a voluntary
act or omission with reckless disregard of legal duty or consequences to another party.
• Deliberate indifference definition? -✓✓ Complete consciousness of reckless disregard
and consequence of one's acts or omissions.
• Conduct that shocks the conscience definition? -✓✓ Situations conducted in complete
carelessness of the law that are so unjust or wrong that the court must intervene.
• What are Plaintiffs 5- Front attacks? -✓✓ Facts of the case, policy, training,
supervision, and discipline.
• Do you have the right away when operating an emergency vehicle? -✓✓ No, when
operating an emergency you are requesting right away.
• Who is responsible for accidents caused during emergency vehicle operations? -✓✓
The operator of emergency vehicle.
• Are officers responsible for accidents of negligence? -✓✓ Yes.
• What does the liability of accidents hinge on during police pursuits? -✓✓ The decision
making of the officer.
, • Why are patrol officers liable for unsafe roads, controls, and structures? -✓✓ It is the
officers duty to report these condition due to the fact they are on patrol 24 hours a day.
• What are Punitive Damages? -✓✓ Personal penalties against an INDIVIDUAL in
federal court. They are excluded from state court.
• What happens if any employee of any government agency, entity, or department,
deprives anyone of there constitutional rights? -✓✓ They or their employer are subject
to be sued in Federal court Depending on their regard for statutes, policy, and
regulations.
• Is there any cap on the amount a defendant can be sued for in federal court? -✓✓ No.
• Who May bring a suit? -✓✓ Anyone.
• Who May be a defendant? -✓✓ Anyone acting under the color of the law.
• What an employees best protection from being individually liable? -✓✓ Written Policy.
• What is the liability of other officers present when a civil rights violation takes place? -
✓✓ Equal punishment.
• What are the two highest law suits brought upon law enforcement? -✓✓ Use of
excessive force, and false arrest/ false imprisonment.
• Brower v. county of Inyo. what is said about use of roadblocks? -✓✓ They will always
be used as a last resort.
• What is the most effective survival tool in law enforcement in which could change the
opinion of society and they way they perceive you? -✓✓ Word of mouth.
• What are the two most effective poisons law enforcement administers to itself? -✓✓
Stretches of authority, and seeds of distrust.
• What are the three most effective disciplines? -✓✓ Self discipline, peer discipline, and
administrative discipline.
• Confession definition? -✓✓ Admitting to all elements of an offense.
• Admission definition? -✓✓ Admitting to some elements of an offense but not all.
• Statement definition? -✓✓ Anything thing suspect says other than a confession or
admission.
