BLEA 873 UPDATED CORE EXAM MANUAL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Tennesse v. Garner - ✔✔1. Deadly force may be used in self defense, or defense of
another when they have reason to believe they are in immediate danger of death or
serious physical harm.
2. Deadly force may be used to seize a suspect when there is PC to believe the suspect
has just committed a crime involving the infliction of serious physical harm and there are
no reasonably safe means of preventing escape.
a warning should be given when feasible
✔✔5 overarching principals of patrol tactics - ✔✔1. legal authority
2. communication
3. position and movement
4. threat management
5. equipment management
✔✔DV Mandatory Arrest rules - ✔✔1. suspect is 18 or older AND
2. within the last four hours, AND
3. is a family/household member or intimate partner, AND
4. the crime was assault with injury (observable or not), felonious assault, or action to
cause reasonable fear or imminent serious bodily injury or death
✔✔5 parts of criminal procedures - ✔✔1. constitutional documents.
2. RCW
3. Wa court rules
4. Agency policies
5. common law
✔✔two kinds of criminal procedures - ✔✔1. Substantive law- mental states necessary to
commit a crime.
2. Procedural law- RCW 10.31.100
✔✔Criminal liability - ✔✔You get criminally charged
✔✔Civil liability - ✔✔admin leave, remedial training
✔✔Departmental liability - ✔✔Department gets sued or responsible
✔✔Public duty doctrine - ✔✔The idea that of a duty to the general population, not a one
duty to any one individual. i.e- we can't do everything
✔✔Social contact - ✔✔non seizure contacts
, ✔✔Reasonable suspicion contact - ✔✔contact based on suspicion allows us to detain
for a reasonable amount of time for the reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is
afoot.
✔✔Tactics that imply detention during a social contact - ✔✔handcuffing
giving commands
walking away with id
transporting without consent.
number of officers present
cutting off avenues of escape
frisking
request to search
✔✔a terry stop is judged by what 3 factors - ✔✔1. purpose of stop
2. the physical intrusion.
3. the length of time/duration
✔✔involuntary treatment act - ✔✔1) threat to self
2) threat to others
3) gravely disabled
4) danger to property
✔✔Reasonable Suspicion definition - ✔✔articulable facts and circumstances that would
lead a reasonable and prudent police officer based on their training and experience, to
believed criminal activity is afoot. ( has happened or is about to happen)
✔✔Probable cause definition - ✔✔Articulable facts and circumstances known to the
officer that would warrant that officer to believe that: 1) A specific crime has or is
occurring, and that 2) The suspect is the person responsible.
✔✔4 elements of arrest - ✔✔1. authority
2. intention
3. understanding
4. custody.
✔✔10.31.100 misdemeanor arrests - ✔✔* assault
* theft
* harassment
* trespass
* contact order violations
* indecent exposure
* hit and run
* DUI
* guns at school
* mal misch
AND ANSWERS MARKED A+
✔✔Tennesse v. Garner - ✔✔1. Deadly force may be used in self defense, or defense of
another when they have reason to believe they are in immediate danger of death or
serious physical harm.
2. Deadly force may be used to seize a suspect when there is PC to believe the suspect
has just committed a crime involving the infliction of serious physical harm and there are
no reasonably safe means of preventing escape.
a warning should be given when feasible
✔✔5 overarching principals of patrol tactics - ✔✔1. legal authority
2. communication
3. position and movement
4. threat management
5. equipment management
✔✔DV Mandatory Arrest rules - ✔✔1. suspect is 18 or older AND
2. within the last four hours, AND
3. is a family/household member or intimate partner, AND
4. the crime was assault with injury (observable or not), felonious assault, or action to
cause reasonable fear or imminent serious bodily injury or death
✔✔5 parts of criminal procedures - ✔✔1. constitutional documents.
2. RCW
3. Wa court rules
4. Agency policies
5. common law
✔✔two kinds of criminal procedures - ✔✔1. Substantive law- mental states necessary to
commit a crime.
2. Procedural law- RCW 10.31.100
✔✔Criminal liability - ✔✔You get criminally charged
✔✔Civil liability - ✔✔admin leave, remedial training
✔✔Departmental liability - ✔✔Department gets sued or responsible
✔✔Public duty doctrine - ✔✔The idea that of a duty to the general population, not a one
duty to any one individual. i.e- we can't do everything
✔✔Social contact - ✔✔non seizure contacts
, ✔✔Reasonable suspicion contact - ✔✔contact based on suspicion allows us to detain
for a reasonable amount of time for the reasonable suspicion that criminal activity is
afoot.
✔✔Tactics that imply detention during a social contact - ✔✔handcuffing
giving commands
walking away with id
transporting without consent.
number of officers present
cutting off avenues of escape
frisking
request to search
✔✔a terry stop is judged by what 3 factors - ✔✔1. purpose of stop
2. the physical intrusion.
3. the length of time/duration
✔✔involuntary treatment act - ✔✔1) threat to self
2) threat to others
3) gravely disabled
4) danger to property
✔✔Reasonable Suspicion definition - ✔✔articulable facts and circumstances that would
lead a reasonable and prudent police officer based on their training and experience, to
believed criminal activity is afoot. ( has happened or is about to happen)
✔✔Probable cause definition - ✔✔Articulable facts and circumstances known to the
officer that would warrant that officer to believe that: 1) A specific crime has or is
occurring, and that 2) The suspect is the person responsible.
✔✔4 elements of arrest - ✔✔1. authority
2. intention
3. understanding
4. custody.
✔✔10.31.100 misdemeanor arrests - ✔✔* assault
* theft
* harassment
* trespass
* contact order violations
* indecent exposure
* hit and run
* DUI
* guns at school
* mal misch
