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Section 3.1 Flashcards

1
Q

Police officer reports are what?

A

Permanent record

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2
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The report brings everything together.

A

TRUE

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3
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As an officer you are involved in a lot of cases it might be years later when you need to testify to remind yourself of the particular case you will need to refer back to what?

A

Report

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4
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If you do not write it down, it did not happen. If you do remember it, it is going to be ___________.

A

Attacked by the defense council

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5
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Prosecutor step one is what?

A

What are we going to do here.

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6
Q

Prosecutor step one questions:
Are we going to change this guy or not?
If we decide to charge him, what are we charging him with?
Look at the _______ because it is a summary of all the evidence that we have,

A

Report

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7
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The _________ uses the report to decide if they are going to prosecute and what they are going to charge a person.

A

Prosecutor

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8
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The report officially gets entered into evidence and is a summary about what happened. The report is the best overall and they use it a lot. Who is they?

A

Judge and Jury

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9
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Who uses your report to see if you are doing your job and for promotional decisions?

A

Department/ Supervisors

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Every time you have a fender bender the police take a report and who uses it to determine who is at fault?

A

Insurance Company

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11
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Insurance companies can use the report to determine whether to pay out or not. They look at your case very close. True or False

A

true

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12
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Common mistake in reports is using _______ that people do not understand .

A

Jargon/ slang

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13
Q

The victim punched the offender and then he grabbed the gun. This is an example of what?

A

Unclear sentence

Who grabbed the gun?

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14
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You can include conclusions and assumptions but you need to ___________.

A

mark them

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15
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Example, I saw an offender stumble many times. I stopped the offender at the corner. I asked him his name and where he was coming from and he said Moe’s in slurred speech. The assumption is what?

A

Moe was intoxicated

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16
Q

You need to be clear if you make an assumption and it needs to be identified.
Example, I assume the man was intoxicated and I tried a breathalyzer and he refused.

A

Yes

17
Q

Is there a difference in your opinion and other people stating their opinion?

A

Yes

18
Q

Are you allowed to put someone’s opinion down as a witness?

A

Yes

19
Q

If the witness calls the defendant stupid can you put it down as an opinion?

A

Yes

20
Q

You can out down other people’s opinions but not your own. True or False

A

True

21
Q 
A gun was found at the scene. 
What scene and where at? 
What type of gun? 
Who found the gun? 
This implies what?
A

Incomplete information

22
Q 
Lots of simple mistakes like 
There, their, they're 
Commas 
should've, could've, would've 
These are examples of what?
A

Grammatical errors

23
Q

They will not respect you if you do not know how to spell simple things. True or False

A

True

24
Q

Step one in organizing a report is what?

A

Outline

25
Q

What makes organization and writing so much easier?

A

Outline

26
Q

Events in your report need to be in what order?

A

Chronological order

27
Q

First, I arrive at the scene at this time and date in my patrol car and the weather was like this. The first thing I observed was this and this. I talked to the witnesses first and then I tased to this person.
This is an example of what on a report?

A

chronological order

28
Q

Should you write in first person on a report?

A

Yes

29
Q

Write a police report like you are telling a narrative and do not use fancy words to try and entertain the reader. True or False

A

True

30
Q

Use as many details as possible if it is relevant to the case. This is what?

A

Narrative order, with details

31
Q

If someone is a witness to a car crash the color of their shirt is not relevant to the case. True or False

A

True

32
Q

Do not say the witness was tall. If the witness says this ask for a more detail for the witness to say the person was 6’4. True or False

A

True

33
Q

What happened.

A

content

34
Q

How it was given.

A

Form

35
Q

Grammatical English, chronological order, one front, separate sections with a bold heading. These are examples of what?

A

Form

36
Q

Do not say the person could not walk without stumbling.
Instead say,
the person did not walk without stumbling
This is an example of what?

A

Conlusionary language

37
Q

Is is possible to know what somebody could or could not do?

A

no

38
Q

All you can observe is what the person _____________.

A

did or did not do

39
Q

Never use could not. Always use did not. True or False.

A

True

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