BLETC 2026 CORE MAIN EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔role of peace officers in assessment, opportunity reduction, and community
involvement - ✔✔using problem oriented policing
- SARA: scanning, analyzing, responding, assessing
- accountability, decentralization, empowerment, and calls for service help w/ relations
w/ the public
✔✔crime prevention programs - ✔✔1) DARE
2) Operation ID: citizens mark their property so it can be identified if stolen
3) neighborhood watch
4) citizen patrols
✔✔techniques for interacting w/ the public - ✔✔1) public talks
2) public displays of officers
3) radio/TV
4) special programs
5) social media
✔✔non-enforcement activities required by peace officers - ✔✔home or business
security surveys
✔✔be (blank) rather than (blank)? - ✔✔proactive rather than reactive
✔✔USC 241 - ✔✔if 2 or more people conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate
any person
- the offender acted w/ specific intent
- doesn/t require any overt act be proven
- held liable criminally
✔✔USC 242 - ✔✔if 1 person under the color of the law subjects a person to a
deprivation of rights, privileges, or immunities from the constitution
, - not by mistake or carelessness, there must be intent
- held liable criminally and civilly
✔✔torts - ✔✔a civil wrong done to another
1) negligent
2) constitutional
3) intentional (excessive force, false arrest, illegal search)
4) strict liability
✔✔defenses to intentional torts - ✔✔1) probable cause
2) good faith
✔✔defenses to negligent torts - ✔✔1) a missing element
2) discretionary act
3) sudden urgency (reasonable person standard)
4) contributory or comparative (assumption to risk)
✔✔requirements for civil liability - ✔✔a wrong done to another person or that person's
property
- was the action unreasonable or justified?
✔✔requirements for criminal liability - ✔✔an officer is just as responsible as other
citizens but may be subject to additional requirements of the law
✔✔Title 42 USC 1983 - ✔✔a method where people can sue law enforcement officers in
federal court for a civil rights violation
- must be a violation of federal constitutional right or statute
- the violation must be committed by a person acting under the color of law
✔✔murder (felony) - ✔✔1st degree: a homicide in which a person unlawfully and w/
malice aforethought (expressed or implied) causes the death of another
felony murder: causes a death while committing a felony (irrespective of malice)
2nd degree: causes death while committing cruelty to children (irrespective of malice)
✔✔voluntary manslaughter (felony) - ✔✔a homicide in which the intent to kill was
present in the mind of the offender but malice was lacking
- crime of passion
- causes reaction in a reasonable person
✔✔involuntary manslaughter (felony or misdemeanor) - ✔✔a homicide in which a
person kills another during a misdemeanor or kills a person doing a lawful act in an
unlawful manner
SURE A+
✔✔role of peace officers in assessment, opportunity reduction, and community
involvement - ✔✔using problem oriented policing
- SARA: scanning, analyzing, responding, assessing
- accountability, decentralization, empowerment, and calls for service help w/ relations
w/ the public
✔✔crime prevention programs - ✔✔1) DARE
2) Operation ID: citizens mark their property so it can be identified if stolen
3) neighborhood watch
4) citizen patrols
✔✔techniques for interacting w/ the public - ✔✔1) public talks
2) public displays of officers
3) radio/TV
4) special programs
5) social media
✔✔non-enforcement activities required by peace officers - ✔✔home or business
security surveys
✔✔be (blank) rather than (blank)? - ✔✔proactive rather than reactive
✔✔USC 241 - ✔✔if 2 or more people conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate
any person
- the offender acted w/ specific intent
- doesn/t require any overt act be proven
- held liable criminally
✔✔USC 242 - ✔✔if 1 person under the color of the law subjects a person to a
deprivation of rights, privileges, or immunities from the constitution
, - not by mistake or carelessness, there must be intent
- held liable criminally and civilly
✔✔torts - ✔✔a civil wrong done to another
1) negligent
2) constitutional
3) intentional (excessive force, false arrest, illegal search)
4) strict liability
✔✔defenses to intentional torts - ✔✔1) probable cause
2) good faith
✔✔defenses to negligent torts - ✔✔1) a missing element
2) discretionary act
3) sudden urgency (reasonable person standard)
4) contributory or comparative (assumption to risk)
✔✔requirements for civil liability - ✔✔a wrong done to another person or that person's
property
- was the action unreasonable or justified?
✔✔requirements for criminal liability - ✔✔an officer is just as responsible as other
citizens but may be subject to additional requirements of the law
✔✔Title 42 USC 1983 - ✔✔a method where people can sue law enforcement officers in
federal court for a civil rights violation
- must be a violation of federal constitutional right or statute
- the violation must be committed by a person acting under the color of law
✔✔murder (felony) - ✔✔1st degree: a homicide in which a person unlawfully and w/
malice aforethought (expressed or implied) causes the death of another
felony murder: causes a death while committing a felony (irrespective of malice)
2nd degree: causes death while committing cruelty to children (irrespective of malice)
✔✔voluntary manslaughter (felony) - ✔✔a homicide in which the intent to kill was
present in the mind of the offender but malice was lacking
- crime of passion
- causes reaction in a reasonable person
✔✔involuntary manslaughter (felony or misdemeanor) - ✔✔a homicide in which a
person kills another during a misdemeanor or kills a person doing a lawful act in an
unlawful manner
