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1. Officer Yang has noticed an increase in gang graffiti in his area. Store owners are complaining about the damage and have asked him to keep a closer eye out for this problem. Which situation below should Officer Yang investigate?

1. Two teenagers are leaning against a park wall completely  covered with gang-related graffiti.
2. Four teenagers are leaning against the clean white wall of a     neighborhood grocery store. One teenager has a spray paint can hanging out of the rear pocket of his baggy pants.
3. Three teenagers are riding bicycles in a grocery store parking lot late at night.
4. Six teenagers are walking along the sidewalk bouncing a basketball and yelling at passing cars while making gang signs with their hands.

2. Merchants in the South Oaks Shopping Mall are upset by a recent rash of purse snatchings in their parking lot. Officer Crandall is closely patrolling the mall area, including the vacant lot behind the stores. Which situation below would Officer Crandall most likely investigate?

1. a car horn honking continuously in the mall parking lot
2. a car in the mall parking lot with four flat tires
3. a woman's voice raised in anger in the mall parking lot
4. a man running from the direction of the mall through the vacant lot with a bulky object underneath his sweatshirt

3. Drug addicts often try to pass fake prescriptions at pharmacies in order to get drugs illegally. Which situation below would lead an officer to investigate a possible forgery at the City Drugstore?

1. a prescription written on a piece of notebook paper
2. a written prescription covered with coffee stains
3. a prescription called in by a doctor
4. a written prescription for pain killers with a date showing it was filled out the day before

 Answers

1. (b) Seeing a teenager with a spray paint can is the most suspicious of the incidents described since Officer Yang is looking for graffiti artists. Spray paint is not an item most people carry around with them and is suspicious given the circumstances.
2. (d) Seeing a man running through the vacant lot with a bulky item under his shirt should make the officer suspicious. A purse snatcher would very likely chose to run through the vacant lot to get away from the area and would very likely want to hide an object as obvious as a woman’s purse from view. Option a is not particularly suspicious given that most car alarms activate the car horn and car alarms frequently go off in parking lots. In b, a car with all tires on flat may indicate criminal mischief but isn’t linked to the purse snatchings. In c, a woman’s voice raised in anger would be a plausible thing to hear following a purse snatching, but it’s not nearly as suspicious as the situation in answer d.
3. (a) Prescriptions are usually written on standardized prescription pads recognized by pharmacists. A prescription written on any other kind of paper would be suspect. In b, the doctor or the patient could be responsible for the coffee stains. It has no apparent bearing on the validity of the prescription. In d, it may be odd that the patient is just now getting around to filling a prescription for pain killers, but the fact that it took a day to do so does not necessarily suggest forgery.