TLETA WEEK ONE KEY CONCEPTS AND
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ What do you need to make an arrest?
Answer: Probable cause
◉ What did Theodore Roosevelt do as a police commissioner at age
37?
Answer: Aggressively pushed police reform
◉ What is Posse Comitatus?
Answer: An act stating the military cannot be used as civilian law
enforcement unless authorized by statute or the Constitution (1878)
◉ What do you need to have for a search warrant?
Answer: Probable cause
◉ What is probable cause?
Answer: Reasonable grounds to believe a person has committed, is
committing, or will commit a crime
◉ What does the Fourth Amendment protect?
,Answer: Protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures of
persons, houses, papers, and effects
◉ How can you establish third-party information as probable cause?
Answer: Aguilar-Spinelli Two-Prong Test; Totality of the
Circumstances Test (State v. Tuttle)
◉ What does the Second Amendment protect?
Answer: Right to bear arms
◉ What does the Fourth Amendment NOT protect?
Answer: Open fields / land (real estate)
◉ Does the Fourth Amendment protect curtilage?
Answer: Yes
◉ What stagecoach company protected and transported valuables?
Answer: Wells Fargo
◉ How many copies of a warrant are required?
Answer: Three
, ◉ Where do the three copies of a warrant go?
Answer: One with the judge; one left at the premises; one filed with
the court
◉ What is mere suspicion?
Answer: An unqualified suspicion without proof requiring further
investigation
◉ Who was the first to employ their own police?
Answer: Wells Fargo
◉ What is a Terry stop and frisk?
Answer: A stop based on reasonable suspicion; frisk limited to outer
clothing for weapons only
◉ What is a protective sweep?
Answer: A limited search of a residence for officer safety when
lawfully present
◉ What does the First Amendment protect?
Answer: Freedom of speech
◉ What is Hue and Cry?
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
◉ What do you need to make an arrest?
Answer: Probable cause
◉ What did Theodore Roosevelt do as a police commissioner at age
37?
Answer: Aggressively pushed police reform
◉ What is Posse Comitatus?
Answer: An act stating the military cannot be used as civilian law
enforcement unless authorized by statute or the Constitution (1878)
◉ What do you need to have for a search warrant?
Answer: Probable cause
◉ What is probable cause?
Answer: Reasonable grounds to believe a person has committed, is
committing, or will commit a crime
◉ What does the Fourth Amendment protect?
,Answer: Protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures of
persons, houses, papers, and effects
◉ How can you establish third-party information as probable cause?
Answer: Aguilar-Spinelli Two-Prong Test; Totality of the
Circumstances Test (State v. Tuttle)
◉ What does the Second Amendment protect?
Answer: Right to bear arms
◉ What does the Fourth Amendment NOT protect?
Answer: Open fields / land (real estate)
◉ Does the Fourth Amendment protect curtilage?
Answer: Yes
◉ What stagecoach company protected and transported valuables?
Answer: Wells Fargo
◉ How many copies of a warrant are required?
Answer: Three
, ◉ Where do the three copies of a warrant go?
Answer: One with the judge; one left at the premises; one filed with
the court
◉ What is mere suspicion?
Answer: An unqualified suspicion without proof requiring further
investigation
◉ Who was the first to employ their own police?
Answer: Wells Fargo
◉ What is a Terry stop and frisk?
Answer: A stop based on reasonable suspicion; frisk limited to outer
clothing for weapons only
◉ What is a protective sweep?
Answer: A limited search of a residence for officer safety when
lawfully present
◉ What does the First Amendment protect?
Answer: Freedom of speech
◉ What is Hue and Cry?
