OPOTA Final ACTUAL Questions And
CORRECT Answers
Police officer main goals - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - enforce Laws
- Preserve the peace
- prevent crime
- protect civil rights and liberties
- provide services
Easiest crime triangle to change - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Opportunity
Factors necessary for the commission of a crime (Crime Triangle) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- - Desire
- Victim
- Opportunity
Purpose of the bill of rights - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Protect an individual's freedoms
- Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
3 major components of the criminal justice system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Punish the offender in many cases,
rehabilitate the offender
- Protect society
- Restore the victim as much as possible
Race - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Modern concept used to classify people by similar,
observable physical characteristics
- It is not, as many people think based on genetics
are people allowed to film police - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Occurs between individuals, includes
public expressions of racial prejudice and hate by individuals
Components of bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
No difference
Professional codes of ethics and professional codes of conduct
Are owed to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- agency
- family
- yourself
Plus model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- who
what
when
where
why
how
CORRECT Answers
Police officer main goals - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - enforce Laws
- Preserve the peace
- prevent crime
- protect civil rights and liberties
- provide services
Easiest crime triangle to change - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Opportunity
Factors necessary for the commission of a crime (Crime Triangle) - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- - Desire
- Victim
- Opportunity
Purpose of the bill of rights - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Protect an individual's freedoms
- Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
3 major components of the criminal justice system - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Punish the offender in many cases,
rehabilitate the offender
- Protect society
- Restore the victim as much as possible
Race - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Modern concept used to classify people by similar,
observable physical characteristics
- It is not, as many people think based on genetics
are people allowed to film police - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Occurs between individuals, includes
public expressions of racial prejudice and hate by individuals
Components of bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
No difference
Professional codes of ethics and professional codes of conduct
Are owed to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- agency
- family
- yourself
Plus model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - 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 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- who
what
when
where
why
how
