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Use this scenario on next four questions: Danny is a new police recruit. He is amazed at the technology that is used at his police department. His goal is to become a detective who works in the crime scene investigation unit of his police department. Because of this goal, when he responds to a call he pays particular attention to the technology used by his police department. One call that Danny responds to is a shooting in which the offender is believed to be hiding in a vacant office building. What device are the officers using to detect whether the suspect is actually hiding in this vacant office building?​

While on patrol, Jerry receives a call regarding a domestic disturbance—a fight between a husband and wife. By the time Jerry arrives at the scene of the disturbance, things have calmed considerably, and he decides to merely warn the parties rather than take any further action. Which type of discretionary factor is best represented in this circumstance?

In the 1990s, police departments began to embrace community policing.​

An officer who approaches a group of teenagers drinking beer, checks everyone’s IDs, and arrests everyone who is underage would typify which style of policing?

Danny is surprised to learn that DNA evidence collected at local crime scenes in his jurisdiction are sent to a federal database titled “Combined DNA Index System.” Which federal agency maintains this CODIS database?​

Twins who develop from separate fertilized eggs are called ________ twins.

Applying mild electrical stimulation to parts of an animal’s cortex which made parts of the animal’s body move, Gustav Fritsch and Edward Hitzig discovered what is now called the

The release of hormones by the adrenal glands is most likely to trigger

Surgical destruction of brain tissue is called a(n)

A state in which the fluid outside an axon has a mostly positive charge and the fluid inside the axon has a mostly negative charge is called