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OPOTA Final exam! Newest Actual Exam With Complete
Questions And Correct Detailed Answers (Verified Answers)
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Police officer main goals - ANSWERS--- enforce Laws
- Preserve the peace
- prevent crime
- protect civil rights and liberties
- provide services
Easiest crime triangle to change - ANSWERS--Opportunity
Factors necessary for the commission of a crime (Crime Triangle) -
ANSWERS--- Desire
- Victim
- Opportunity
Purpose of the bill of rights - ANSWERS--- Protect an individual's
freedoms
- Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
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3 major components of the criminal justice system - ANSWERS--Law
enforcement
- Keep the peace
- Apprehend violators and combat crime
- Prevent crime
Courts
- hold fair and impartial trials
- determine guilt or innocence
- impose sentences on the guilty
Corrections
- responsible for supervising the offender
- prison/county jails
- parole/probation
- work release programs
Goal of sentencing - ANSWERS--- Punish the offender in many cases,
rehabilitate the offender
- Protect society
- Restore the victim as much as possible
Race - ANSWERS--- Modern concept used to classify people by
similar, observable physical characteristics
- It is not, as many people think based on genetics
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are people allowed to film police - ANSWERS--Yes
- At least one party to the encounter consents
OR
- When officers are carrying out their duties in public, so long as it
does not interfere with the officers carrying out their duties
police legitimacy - ANSWERS--Police legitimacy - exists when the
public views the police as authorized to exercise power in order to
maintain social order, manage conflicts, and solve problems in the
community
interpersonal racism - ANSWERS--Occurs between individuals,
includes public expressions of racial prejudice and hate by individuals
Components of bias - ANSWERS--PREJUDICES
- An often negative prejudgment based on characteristics such as
race, age, gender, etc. that is not necessarily reasonable or logical
Difference between bias based profiling and crimal profiling -
ANSWERS--No difference
Professional codes of ethics and professional codes of conduct
Are owed to: - ANSWERS--- community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- agency
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- family
- yourself
Plus model - ANSWERS--P= Policies- is it consistent with my agency's
policies?
L= Legal- is the action lawful
U= Universal- does it conform to the universal principles and values
of my agency
S= Self- does it align with my beliefs of what is right, good, and fair
what is recorded in your field notes - ANSWERS--- complete
information on victims, witnesses, and suspects involved
- relevant dates and times
- location of occurence
- types of place where offense or incident took place
- details of offense or incident being reported
- disposition of evidence, property, and subjects
- corresponding report number
Essential questions answered in a report - ANSWERS--who
what
when
where
why
how
OPOTA Final exam! Newest Actual Exam With Complete
Questions And Correct Detailed Answers (Verified Answers)
|Already Graded A+
Police officer main goals - ANSWERS--- enforce Laws
- Preserve the peace
- prevent crime
- protect civil rights and liberties
- provide services
Easiest crime triangle to change - ANSWERS--Opportunity
Factors necessary for the commission of a crime (Crime Triangle) -
ANSWERS--- Desire
- Victim
- Opportunity
Purpose of the bill of rights - ANSWERS--- Protect an individual's
freedoms
- Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
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3 major components of the criminal justice system - ANSWERS--Law
enforcement
- Keep the peace
- Apprehend violators and combat crime
- Prevent crime
Courts
- hold fair and impartial trials
- determine guilt or innocence
- impose sentences on the guilty
Corrections
- responsible for supervising the offender
- prison/county jails
- parole/probation
- work release programs
Goal of sentencing - ANSWERS--- Punish the offender in many cases,
rehabilitate the offender
- Protect society
- Restore the victim as much as possible
Race - ANSWERS--- Modern concept used to classify people by
similar, observable physical characteristics
- It is not, as many people think based on genetics
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are people allowed to film police - ANSWERS--Yes
- At least one party to the encounter consents
OR
- When officers are carrying out their duties in public, so long as it
does not interfere with the officers carrying out their duties
police legitimacy - ANSWERS--Police legitimacy - exists when the
public views the police as authorized to exercise power in order to
maintain social order, manage conflicts, and solve problems in the
community
interpersonal racism - ANSWERS--Occurs between individuals,
includes public expressions of racial prejudice and hate by individuals
Components of bias - ANSWERS--PREJUDICES
- An often negative prejudgment based on characteristics such as
race, age, gender, etc. that is not necessarily reasonable or logical
Difference between bias based profiling and crimal profiling -
ANSWERS--No difference
Professional codes of ethics and professional codes of conduct
Are owed to: - ANSWERS--- community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- agency
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- family
- yourself
Plus model - ANSWERS--P= Policies- is it consistent with my agency's
policies?
L= Legal- is the action lawful
U= Universal- does it conform to the universal principles and values
of my agency
S= Self- does it align with my beliefs of what is right, good, and fair
what is recorded in your field notes - ANSWERS--- complete
information on victims, witnesses, and suspects involved
- relevant dates and times
- location of occurence
- types of place where offense or incident took place
- details of offense or incident being reported
- disposition of evidence, property, and subjects
- corresponding report number
Essential questions answered in a report - ANSWERS--who
what
when
where
why
how
