Opota Ohio Peace Officer Basic UPDATED ACTUAL Questions And CORRECT Answers

Opota Ohio Peace Officer Basic UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions And CORRECT
Answers
List the Officer's Main Goals - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Keep the Peace
Prevent Crime
Up-hold the People's Rights
Provide Services


Considerations When Exercising Discretion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Situation
Background
Consequences
Severity


Reason for Law Enforcement Training - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- To Protect Life and
Property of yourself and the public.


What is the relationship between a SPO and a Test Question? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A
test question must respond directly to a SPO and every SPO may be the basis of a test
question.


Factors Necessary for the commission of a crime? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Desire
Victim
Opportunity


Core Concepts of Community Policing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Partnership between
Police & Community
-Crime prevention
-Organizational Change in Agency
-A problem solving approach to the police role that is proactive

,Considerations for off-duty Situations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Behavior
Situational Awareness


Purpose of the Bill of Rights - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Protecting an Individual's
Freedoms


Major Components of the Criminal Justice System - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Law
Enforcement
Court
Corrections


Goals of Sentencing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Punish the offender
Rehabilitate the offender
Protect Society
Restore the Victim


Concepts of Lawful actions and Police Legitimacy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Lawful -
Defined by laws and standards
* Criminal Law
* Agency Rules
* Constitutional Law
Police Legitimacy
* How the public views police as authorized to exercise power.


When can citizens film the police? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - When at least one party
consents
- When officers are carrying out duties in public, as long as they don't interfere.


Define the connection between "in group" and "out group" police legitimacy. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Individual's interpretation of encounters with police in terms of their group's
societal position rather than the circumstances of the police contact.

,Types of Racism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -Individual
-Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural


Components of Bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Stereotypes
- Prejudices
- Attitude


Bias-Based Profiling VS Criminal Profiling - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Bias-Based
* Racial
* Gender
* Religion
* Sexual Orientation
Criminal
*Based on observed behavior and characteristics.


List the Two Modes of Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Attitude
- More Deliberate


Strategies to Counter Implicit Biases - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Guard against influence
- Recognize everyone is Bias
- Seek awareness and education
- Know you are susceptible


Two-pronged approach to Criminal Justice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Person based
approach
- Community based model

, Bank Account Concept of Procedural Justice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Every Encounter
is a deposit or withdraw on Police Legitimacy.


List the 4 core principles of Procedural Justice - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Giving others a
voice
- Neutrality in decision making
- Respectful Treatment
- Trustworthiness


Ethical Responsibilities - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Community & Citizens
- Law Enforcement
- Your Agency
- Your Family
- Yourself


External Influences on Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Friends and Family
- Citizens
- Media
- Department Regulations
- Policies
- Police Subculture
- Sense of community
- Fidelity / Loyalty


Internal Influences on Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Own ethical and moral beliefs
- Anger
- Greed
- Lust
- Internal Rationalizations