CTE – Law Enforcement Study Guide and Practice Questions for Career and Technical
Education Assessment
Night Watch - ANS ✔✔Boston Patrol (Keeping the peace, settling minor disputes and looking for
fires). The city actually had both day and night patrols and they operated separately from each
other. The watch standers were equipped with various signaling devices, including bells,
ratchets, and rattles.
Hammurabi Code - ANS ✔✔Babylonian king enacted the Code which consists of 282 laws, with
scaled punishments "Eye for an Eye tooth for a tooth"
Comes Stabuli - ANS ✔✔Constable Local level individuals who assisted the shire reeve and
organized poses to chase and apprehend criminals
Probable cause - ANS ✔✔Knowledge, based on facts and circumstances which would cause a
reasonable and prudent police officer to believe that a crime has, or is being committed, and
that the person to be arrested has committed, or is committing a crime.
Reasonable Suspicion - ANS ✔✔Warranted suspicion that a person may be engaged in criminal
conduct. Not quite to the level of probable cause. Means that any reasonable person would
suspect that a crime was in the process of being committed, had been committed or was going
to be committed very soon.
Investigate - ANS ✔✔Carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts
of (an incident, allegation, etc.) so as to establish the truth.
Define the 1st 10 Amendments to the Bill of Rights? - ANS ✔✔1st-Freedom of speech
2nd- right to bear arms
3rd - right not to quarter soldiers in times of peace
4th-search and seizure
, 5th -right not to testify against yourself
6th- fast and speedy trial
7th- right to a jury
8th- cruel and unusual punishment
9th- more rights than what are listed
10th- state's rights
The Exclusionary Rule - ANS ✔✔Mandates that evidence obtained from an illegal arrest,
unreasonable search,or coercive interrogation must be excluded from trial.
Mapp v. Ohio - ANS ✔✔Requires the states to recognize the Exclusionary Rule
Weeks v. United States - ANS ✔✔created the Exclusionary rule, which makes evidence
inadmissible in court if it is seized illegally. A judge may exclude incriminating evidence from a
criminal trial if there was police misconduct in obtaining the evidence.
Jurisdiction - ANS ✔✔the official power to make legal decisions and judgments.
911 dispatch - ANS ✔✔A 911 dispatcher is an individual who works at a 911 communications
center and takes incoming emergency calls.
Ruiz v. Stelle - ANS ✔✔Ruiz v. Estelle, 503 F. Supp. 1265 (S.D. Tex. 1980), filed in United States
District Court for the Southern District of Texas, eventually became the most far-reaching
lawsuit on the conditions of prison incarceration in American history.
Fruits of the poisonous tree - ANS ✔✔offspring of the Exclusionary Rule. Fruit of the poisonous
tree doctrine was established primarily to deter law enforcement from violating rights against
unreasonable searches and seizures. States that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth,
Fifth or Sixth amendments cannot be introduced in court.
Education Assessment
Night Watch - ANS ✔✔Boston Patrol (Keeping the peace, settling minor disputes and looking for
fires). The city actually had both day and night patrols and they operated separately from each
other. The watch standers were equipped with various signaling devices, including bells,
ratchets, and rattles.
Hammurabi Code - ANS ✔✔Babylonian king enacted the Code which consists of 282 laws, with
scaled punishments "Eye for an Eye tooth for a tooth"
Comes Stabuli - ANS ✔✔Constable Local level individuals who assisted the shire reeve and
organized poses to chase and apprehend criminals
Probable cause - ANS ✔✔Knowledge, based on facts and circumstances which would cause a
reasonable and prudent police officer to believe that a crime has, or is being committed, and
that the person to be arrested has committed, or is committing a crime.
Reasonable Suspicion - ANS ✔✔Warranted suspicion that a person may be engaged in criminal
conduct. Not quite to the level of probable cause. Means that any reasonable person would
suspect that a crime was in the process of being committed, had been committed or was going
to be committed very soon.
Investigate - ANS ✔✔Carry out a systematic or formal inquiry to discover and examine the facts
of (an incident, allegation, etc.) so as to establish the truth.
Define the 1st 10 Amendments to the Bill of Rights? - ANS ✔✔1st-Freedom of speech
2nd- right to bear arms
3rd - right not to quarter soldiers in times of peace
4th-search and seizure
, 5th -right not to testify against yourself
6th- fast and speedy trial
7th- right to a jury
8th- cruel and unusual punishment
9th- more rights than what are listed
10th- state's rights
The Exclusionary Rule - ANS ✔✔Mandates that evidence obtained from an illegal arrest,
unreasonable search,or coercive interrogation must be excluded from trial.
Mapp v. Ohio - ANS ✔✔Requires the states to recognize the Exclusionary Rule
Weeks v. United States - ANS ✔✔created the Exclusionary rule, which makes evidence
inadmissible in court if it is seized illegally. A judge may exclude incriminating evidence from a
criminal trial if there was police misconduct in obtaining the evidence.
Jurisdiction - ANS ✔✔the official power to make legal decisions and judgments.
911 dispatch - ANS ✔✔A 911 dispatcher is an individual who works at a 911 communications
center and takes incoming emergency calls.
Ruiz v. Stelle - ANS ✔✔Ruiz v. Estelle, 503 F. Supp. 1265 (S.D. Tex. 1980), filed in United States
District Court for the Southern District of Texas, eventually became the most far-reaching
lawsuit on the conditions of prison incarceration in American history.
Fruits of the poisonous tree - ANS ✔✔offspring of the Exclusionary Rule. Fruit of the poisonous
tree doctrine was established primarily to deter law enforcement from violating rights against
unreasonable searches and seizures. States that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth,
Fifth or Sixth amendments cannot be introduced in court.
