TLETA WEEK 2 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS ||
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1. Lowest use of force - ANSWER ✔ Officer presence and verbal commands
2. Self referential language - ANSWER ✔ Challenging words taken personally
3. rhetorical triangle - ANSWER ✔ Ethos, logos, pathos
4. Persuasion is better than - ANSWER ✔ Ask, tell, make
5. Police are... - ANSWER ✔ Guardians of the peace
6. Pre attack indicators - ANSWER ✔ Blading off, getting close, pacing,
stretching, etc.
7. Empathy - ANSWER ✔ See the world through eyes of others
8. Civil rights act - ANSWER ✔ Signed by president johnson (1964) outlawed
discrimination
,9. Gov. Tort liability act - ANSWER ✔ Allows suing of gov. for injuries or
damages caused by negligence/wrongdoing.
10.TN v Garner 1974 - ANSWER ✔ ruled the use of deadly force against a
non-dangerous, fleeing suspect is unconstitutional under the Fourth
Amendment.
11.Where does the rule of thumb come from? - ANSWER ✔ in the 1700's,
there was English common law decreeing a husband could chastise his wife
with a whip no bigger than his thumb
12.Who and when stated that wives charging husbands with criminal assault
and battery must suffer more injuries than commonly needed for charges of
battery? - ANSWER ✔ California Penal Code, 1977
13."A person does not commit rape/sexual battery if the victim is the legal
spouse of the perpetrator..." = ? - ANSWER ✔ limited spousal exclusion (no
longer a thing)
14.What ended the limited spousal exclusion? When? - ANSWER ✔ Spousal
Rape Charges, 1989
15._____ of domestic violence cases are misdemeanors. - ANSWER ✔ 90%
16.Domestic Violence: Name the 6 most common areas of office liability. -
ANSWER ✔ 1. failure to take proper actions to protect a citizen, 2. failure to
appropriately enforce a court order protecting a victim of domestic abuse, 3.
failure to respond at all or in a timely manner, 4. failure to provide info to a
victim as required by law, 5. arresting a citizen without establishing probable
, cause, 6. exhibiting a pattern of differential treatment or application of the
law to domestic violence cases
17.A person commits _____ who: intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes
bodily injury to another. - ANSWER ✔ assault
18.What court case what decided by the supreme court to overcome the
"inherent coercive" nature of custodial police interrogations? - ANSWER ✔
Miranda v Arizona
19.Before all police custodial interrogations, the suspect must be advised of
what 4 things? - ANSWER ✔ 1. they have the right to remain silent, 2.
anything they say can be used against them, 3. they have the right to an
attorney, 4. if they can't afford an attorney, one will be appointed by the
court
20.If a suspect waives their Miranda rights, the state has the burden to prove
what 3 things? - ANSWER ✔ 1. the required warnings were given
completely, 2. they were waived knowingly, freely, and voluntarily, 3. not
the result of coercion/deceit/trickery
21.Is refusing to speak an invocation of the right to remain silent? - ANSWER
✔ no -> there must be a clear invocation of the right
22.Info passed on by CI needs info to be predictive and have - ANSWER ✔
valid reasonable suspicion
23.Do courts look at two prong test to establish reasonable suspicion? -
ANSWER ✔ Yes, but not as stringently
, 24.At what point is suspect "seized"? - ANSWER ✔ As soon as police display
authority (blue lights)
25.A person is not "seized" until - ANSWER ✔ physically restrained or
voluntarily complies
26.Civil Liability is a - ANSWER ✔ financial transaction
27.Negligence Triangle of civil liability - ANSWER ✔ Who was injured -
Who's responsible - $$$$
28.3 factors needed to win a civil liability case - ANSWER ✔ Reasonable
justified
defensible
29.Fawcett v Franklin - ANSWER ✔ If you are in a vehicle with a fleeing
person then you are considered a fleeing person
30.What is often a weak link to many case LEOs lose - ANSWER ✔
supervisors
31.Levels of liability from least to greatest - ANSWER ✔ Negligence
(wrongdoing or mistake)
Gross Neg (Mistake with knowledge)
Deliberate Indifference (don't care)
Conduct that shocks the conscience (morally reprehensible)
2026/2027 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<NEWEST VERSION>
1. Lowest use of force - ANSWER ✔ Officer presence and verbal commands
2. Self referential language - ANSWER ✔ Challenging words taken personally
3. rhetorical triangle - ANSWER ✔ Ethos, logos, pathos
4. Persuasion is better than - ANSWER ✔ Ask, tell, make
5. Police are... - ANSWER ✔ Guardians of the peace
6. Pre attack indicators - ANSWER ✔ Blading off, getting close, pacing,
stretching, etc.
7. Empathy - ANSWER ✔ See the world through eyes of others
8. Civil rights act - ANSWER ✔ Signed by president johnson (1964) outlawed
discrimination
,9. Gov. Tort liability act - ANSWER ✔ Allows suing of gov. for injuries or
damages caused by negligence/wrongdoing.
10.TN v Garner 1974 - ANSWER ✔ ruled the use of deadly force against a
non-dangerous, fleeing suspect is unconstitutional under the Fourth
Amendment.
11.Where does the rule of thumb come from? - ANSWER ✔ in the 1700's,
there was English common law decreeing a husband could chastise his wife
with a whip no bigger than his thumb
12.Who and when stated that wives charging husbands with criminal assault
and battery must suffer more injuries than commonly needed for charges of
battery? - ANSWER ✔ California Penal Code, 1977
13."A person does not commit rape/sexual battery if the victim is the legal
spouse of the perpetrator..." = ? - ANSWER ✔ limited spousal exclusion (no
longer a thing)
14.What ended the limited spousal exclusion? When? - ANSWER ✔ Spousal
Rape Charges, 1989
15._____ of domestic violence cases are misdemeanors. - ANSWER ✔ 90%
16.Domestic Violence: Name the 6 most common areas of office liability. -
ANSWER ✔ 1. failure to take proper actions to protect a citizen, 2. failure to
appropriately enforce a court order protecting a victim of domestic abuse, 3.
failure to respond at all or in a timely manner, 4. failure to provide info to a
victim as required by law, 5. arresting a citizen without establishing probable
, cause, 6. exhibiting a pattern of differential treatment or application of the
law to domestic violence cases
17.A person commits _____ who: intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causes
bodily injury to another. - ANSWER ✔ assault
18.What court case what decided by the supreme court to overcome the
"inherent coercive" nature of custodial police interrogations? - ANSWER ✔
Miranda v Arizona
19.Before all police custodial interrogations, the suspect must be advised of
what 4 things? - ANSWER ✔ 1. they have the right to remain silent, 2.
anything they say can be used against them, 3. they have the right to an
attorney, 4. if they can't afford an attorney, one will be appointed by the
court
20.If a suspect waives their Miranda rights, the state has the burden to prove
what 3 things? - ANSWER ✔ 1. the required warnings were given
completely, 2. they were waived knowingly, freely, and voluntarily, 3. not
the result of coercion/deceit/trickery
21.Is refusing to speak an invocation of the right to remain silent? - ANSWER
✔ no -> there must be a clear invocation of the right
22.Info passed on by CI needs info to be predictive and have - ANSWER ✔
valid reasonable suspicion
23.Do courts look at two prong test to establish reasonable suspicion? -
ANSWER ✔ Yes, but not as stringently
, 24.At what point is suspect "seized"? - ANSWER ✔ As soon as police display
authority (blue lights)
25.A person is not "seized" until - ANSWER ✔ physically restrained or
voluntarily complies
26.Civil Liability is a - ANSWER ✔ financial transaction
27.Negligence Triangle of civil liability - ANSWER ✔ Who was injured -
Who's responsible - $$$$
28.3 factors needed to win a civil liability case - ANSWER ✔ Reasonable
justified
defensible
29.Fawcett v Franklin - ANSWER ✔ If you are in a vehicle with a fleeing
person then you are considered a fleeing person
30.What is often a weak link to many case LEOs lose - ANSWER ✔
supervisors
31.Levels of liability from least to greatest - ANSWER ✔ Negligence
(wrongdoing or mistake)
Gross Neg (Mistake with knowledge)
Deliberate Indifference (don't care)
Conduct that shocks the conscience (morally reprehensible)
