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Opota Ohio Peace Officer Basic Questions
and Answers
List the Officer's Main Goals
Ans: Keep the Peace
Prevent Crime
Up-hold the People's Rights
Provide Services
Considerations When Exercising Discretion
Ans: Situation
Background
Consequences
Severity
Reason for Law Enforcement Training
Ans: To Protect Life and Property of yourself and the public.
What is the relationship between a SPO and a Test Question?
Ans: 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?
Ans: Desire
Victim
Opportunity
Core Concepts of Community Policing
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Ans: -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
Ans: Behavior
Situational Awareness
Purpose of the Bill of Rights
Ans: Protecting an Individual's Freedoms
Major Components of the Criminal Justice System
Ans: Law Enforcement
Court
Corrections
Goals of Sentencing
Ans: Punish the offender
Rehabilitate the offender
Protect Society
Restore the Victim
Concepts of Lawful actions and Police Legitimacy
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Ans: 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?
Ans: - 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.
Ans: 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
Ans: -Individual
-Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural
Components of Bias
Ans: - Stereotypes
- Prejudices
- Attitude
Bias-Based Profiling VS Criminal Profiling
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Ans: Bias-Based
* Racial
* Gender
* Religion
* Sexual Orientation
Criminal
*Based on observed behavior and characteristics.
List the Two Modes of Thinking
Ans: - Attitude
- More Deliberate
Strategies to Counter Implicit Biases
Ans: - Guard against influence
- Recognize everyone is Bias
- Seek awareness and education
- Know you are susceptible
Two-pronged approach to Criminal Justice
Ans: - Person based approach
- Community based model
Bank Account Concept of Procedural Justice
Ans: Every Encounter is a deposit or withdraw on Police Legitimacy.
List the 4 core principles of Procedural Justice
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Opota Ohio Peace Officer Basic Questions
and Answers
List the Officer's Main Goals
Ans: Keep the Peace
Prevent Crime
Up-hold the People's Rights
Provide Services
Considerations When Exercising Discretion
Ans: Situation
Background
Consequences
Severity
Reason for Law Enforcement Training
Ans: To Protect Life and Property of yourself and the public.
What is the relationship between a SPO and a Test Question?
Ans: 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?
Ans: Desire
Victim
Opportunity
Core Concepts of Community Policing
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Ans: -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
Ans: Behavior
Situational Awareness
Purpose of the Bill of Rights
Ans: Protecting an Individual's Freedoms
Major Components of the Criminal Justice System
Ans: Law Enforcement
Court
Corrections
Goals of Sentencing
Ans: Punish the offender
Rehabilitate the offender
Protect Society
Restore the Victim
Concepts of Lawful actions and Police Legitimacy
© 2025 All rights reserved
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Ans: 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?
Ans: - 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.
Ans: 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
Ans: -Individual
-Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural
Components of Bias
Ans: - Stereotypes
- Prejudices
- Attitude
Bias-Based Profiling VS Criminal Profiling
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Ans: Bias-Based
* Racial
* Gender
* Religion
* Sexual Orientation
Criminal
*Based on observed behavior and characteristics.
List the Two Modes of Thinking
Ans: - Attitude
- More Deliberate
Strategies to Counter Implicit Biases
Ans: - Guard against influence
- Recognize everyone is Bias
- Seek awareness and education
- Know you are susceptible
Two-pronged approach to Criminal Justice
Ans: - Person based approach
- Community based model
Bank Account Concept of Procedural Justice
Ans: Every Encounter is a deposit or withdraw on Police Legitimacy.
List the 4 core principles of Procedural Justice
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