BLEA UPDATED STUDY EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Municipal Courts - ✔✔Court of municipal jurisdiction. One judge oversees criminal
(misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor) and civil cases within municipal boundaries.
✔✔District Courts - ✔✔A court of county jurisdiction. One judge oversees criminal
(misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor) and civil cases within county boundaries.
✔✔Superior Court - ✔✔A court of state-wide jurisdiction. One judge oversees criminal
(felony) and civil cases. Hears juvenile cases.
✔✔State Court of Appeals - ✔✔A court for appeals of law. Three justices assigned per
cause.
✔✔United States Supreme Court - ✔✔Final avenue of appeal for Washington State
Constitutional Issues. Nine justices sit in consideration of appeals generated to the
court.
✔✔Criminal Investigation - ✔✔A search for the truth. It is the reconstruction of the crime
scene in order to identify and locate the suspect and gather evidence.
✔✔Anatomy of an Investigation - ✔✔Respond to the scene or area and render the
scene safe
Locate and gather witnesses and/or suspects
Identify evidence and establish borders
Call in additional resources if necessary
Get enough information for the report, and leave the scene better than how you found it
✔✔Physical Evidence - ✔✔1. What is physical evidence? Anything that will challenge or
support information.Any legally obtained object or material..
2. Why is physical evidence important? Can prove a crime was committed, that a
suspect was at the scene, or establish the identity of persons involved.
✔✔Locard's Law - ✔✔Known as the theory of transfer and mutual exchange. Holds that
the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into a crime scene and leave with
something from it, and that both can be used as forensic evidence.
✔✔Information and Physical Evidence - ✔✔Information - Finding a Subject
Evidence - Conviction
Information is primary to locating a suspect and secondary to convicting a suspect.
Physical evidence is primary for conviction but secondary to locating a suspect.
Physical Evidence provides tangible objects for jury's to review, It is hard to
misrepresent physical evidence.
, ✔✔Characteristics of Physical Evidence - ✔✔Class Characteristics
Individual Characteristics
✔✔Class Characteristics - ✔✔Identifiers that comprise a group of something
Cannot be identified to a single source (i.e. Fibers, Paint, Blood Types, Hair, Soil, etc.)
✔✔Individual Characteristics - ✔✔Are true of only one source of evidence (i.e.
Fingerprints, Bite Marks, Tool Marks, Handwriting, DNA, etc.)
✔✔Physical Evidence Requirements - ✔✔Physical evidence must meet four
requirements - It must be:
1. Legally obtained
2. Relevant
3. Identifiable
4. A chain of custody must be maintained
✔✔Chain of Custody - ✔✔The chronological documentation or paper trail that records
the sequence of custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of electronic
evidence.
✔✔Crisis - ✔✔An emotionally significant event that causes stress, overwhelms
someone's usual problem-solving skills, and results in chaos.
✔✔Purpose of Crisis Intervention - ✔✔1. Crisis
2. Stress
3. Verbal/Non-Verbal Communication
4. Effective Communication
5. Tactical Communication
6. Empathy
7.Active Listening
✔✔The 3 E's of Traffic Enforcement - ✔✔1. Education - Education of the public
2. Engineering - Contributing factors in collisions are determined by investigators, these
factors can influence roadway design and traffic control
3. Enforcement - To motivate motorists to modify their driving behavior and to act as
deterrent
✔✔Ethics in Traffic Law Enforcement - ✔✔1. Perceptions - Most citizen's first
impression with Law Enforcement is usually on a traffic stop. First impressions are
lasting ones. The commission card that you carry gives you authority as well as
responsibility. Don't abuse your authority.
Professionalism - Officers are held to a higher standard of performance. You should
hold yourself and your fellow officers to the same standards. Be professional at all
times!
GRADED A+
✔✔Municipal Courts - ✔✔Court of municipal jurisdiction. One judge oversees criminal
(misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor) and civil cases within municipal boundaries.
✔✔District Courts - ✔✔A court of county jurisdiction. One judge oversees criminal
(misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor) and civil cases within county boundaries.
✔✔Superior Court - ✔✔A court of state-wide jurisdiction. One judge oversees criminal
(felony) and civil cases. Hears juvenile cases.
✔✔State Court of Appeals - ✔✔A court for appeals of law. Three justices assigned per
cause.
✔✔United States Supreme Court - ✔✔Final avenue of appeal for Washington State
Constitutional Issues. Nine justices sit in consideration of appeals generated to the
court.
✔✔Criminal Investigation - ✔✔A search for the truth. It is the reconstruction of the crime
scene in order to identify and locate the suspect and gather evidence.
✔✔Anatomy of an Investigation - ✔✔Respond to the scene or area and render the
scene safe
Locate and gather witnesses and/or suspects
Identify evidence and establish borders
Call in additional resources if necessary
Get enough information for the report, and leave the scene better than how you found it
✔✔Physical Evidence - ✔✔1. What is physical evidence? Anything that will challenge or
support information.Any legally obtained object or material..
2. Why is physical evidence important? Can prove a crime was committed, that a
suspect was at the scene, or establish the identity of persons involved.
✔✔Locard's Law - ✔✔Known as the theory of transfer and mutual exchange. Holds that
the perpetrator of a crime will bring something into a crime scene and leave with
something from it, and that both can be used as forensic evidence.
✔✔Information and Physical Evidence - ✔✔Information - Finding a Subject
Evidence - Conviction
Information is primary to locating a suspect and secondary to convicting a suspect.
Physical evidence is primary for conviction but secondary to locating a suspect.
Physical Evidence provides tangible objects for jury's to review, It is hard to
misrepresent physical evidence.
, ✔✔Characteristics of Physical Evidence - ✔✔Class Characteristics
Individual Characteristics
✔✔Class Characteristics - ✔✔Identifiers that comprise a group of something
Cannot be identified to a single source (i.e. Fibers, Paint, Blood Types, Hair, Soil, etc.)
✔✔Individual Characteristics - ✔✔Are true of only one source of evidence (i.e.
Fingerprints, Bite Marks, Tool Marks, Handwriting, DNA, etc.)
✔✔Physical Evidence Requirements - ✔✔Physical evidence must meet four
requirements - It must be:
1. Legally obtained
2. Relevant
3. Identifiable
4. A chain of custody must be maintained
✔✔Chain of Custody - ✔✔The chronological documentation or paper trail that records
the sequence of custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of electronic
evidence.
✔✔Crisis - ✔✔An emotionally significant event that causes stress, overwhelms
someone's usual problem-solving skills, and results in chaos.
✔✔Purpose of Crisis Intervention - ✔✔1. Crisis
2. Stress
3. Verbal/Non-Verbal Communication
4. Effective Communication
5. Tactical Communication
6. Empathy
7.Active Listening
✔✔The 3 E's of Traffic Enforcement - ✔✔1. Education - Education of the public
2. Engineering - Contributing factors in collisions are determined by investigators, these
factors can influence roadway design and traffic control
3. Enforcement - To motivate motorists to modify their driving behavior and to act as
deterrent
✔✔Ethics in Traffic Law Enforcement - ✔✔1. Perceptions - Most citizen's first
impression with Law Enforcement is usually on a traffic stop. First impressions are
lasting ones. The commission card that you carry gives you authority as well as
responsibility. Don't abuse your authority.
Professionalism - Officers are held to a higher standard of performance. You should
hold yourself and your fellow officers to the same standards. Be professional at all
times!
