PBI-Manatt Civic Quiz: Quest for Justice

1. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, sponsored by Representative Karen Bass (D-CA 37th District), would institute which of the following changes?

Create a nationwide police misconduct registry

End the use of no-knock warrants for all cases at the federal level

Ban the use of stun-guns by police officers

Designate racially-motivated 911 calls as hate crimes

2. Which event prompted the founding of Black Lives Matter?

The televised beating of Rodney King in 1991

The Charleston church shooting in 2015

The Ferguson protests in 2014

The acquittal of George Zimmerman in 2013

3. After the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, Los Angeles City voters passed Charter Amendment F. It included which of the following?

Requiring de-escalation training for police

Eliminating the police chief’s civil service protection

Requiring that police wear body cameras

Changing the post of the police chief from appointed to elected

4. California’s Constitutional Amendment 5, placed on the November ballot by the state legislature, would:

Overturn a previous constitutional amendment that restricted affirmative action

Ban the use of chokeholds by police

Tighten penalties for housing discrimination based on race and ethnicity

Reform the probation and bail systems

5. “Qualified immunity” refers to:

a federal law that shields police from many prosecutions

a California law that makes it easier to prosecute police officers

a judicial interpretation of federal law that makes it harder to prosecute police officers

a federal law that makes it difficult to sue elected officials for their acts in office

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