OPOTA EXAM PRACTICE
QUESTIONS
1. List a peace officer's main goals
Answer Preserve Peace Prevent Crimes
Protect Civil Rights and Liberties
Provide Services
Enforce Laws
2. Explain the factors necessary for the commission of a crime.
Answer Desire Victim
Opportunity
3. State the purpose of the Bill of Rights.
Answer Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights.
4. Describe the major components of the criminal justice system.
Answer Law Enforcement Courts
,Corrections
5. List the goals of sentencing
Answer Punish the ottender Rehabilitate the ottender
6. Determine when it is permissible for citizens to film police
Answer At least one party of the encounter consents
When the oflcers are carrying out their duties in public so as long it does not interfere with the oflcers
7. Identify the relationship between race, genetics and physical characteristics-
Answer Race is a modern concept used to classify people by similar, observable physical characteristics
8. Identify the connection between in-groups, out-groups, and police legitima-
cy.
Answer Some individuals interpret their encounters with police in terms of their groups societal position rather than
or in addition to the immediate circumstances of police contact.
9. Differentiate the types of racism
Answer Individual Racism- INTERNALIZED, UNEXPRESSED biases and prejudices based on race.
,Interpersonal Racism—Occurs between INDIVIDUALS. Includes public expressions of racial prejudices and hate made
by individuals.
10. Identify the components of biases
Answer STEREOTYPES
ATTITUDES
PREJUDICE
11. Differentiate bias-based profiling and criminal profiling
Answer Bias-based profiling is un-
equal treatment by a law enforcement oflcer of any person by stopping, questioning, searching, detaining, or arresting
, on the basis of the person's ethnic or racial characteristics.
Criminal profiling is based on observed behaviors and characteristics.
12. Differentiate the two modes of thinking
Answer (System 1) Automatic thinking Unconscious, ettortless, automatic, uses
associative memory, very fast
(System 2) Deliberative thinking
Conscious, ettortful, controlled, deliberative, slower
13. Explain the generally accepted ethical responsibilities of peace officers
Answer - your community
- your agency
- the profession
- the family
- yourself
QUESTIONS
1. List a peace officer's main goals
Answer Preserve Peace Prevent Crimes
Protect Civil Rights and Liberties
Provide Services
Enforce Laws
2. Explain the factors necessary for the commission of a crime.
Answer Desire Victim
Opportunity
3. State the purpose of the Bill of Rights.
Answer Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights.
4. Describe the major components of the criminal justice system.
Answer Law Enforcement Courts
,Corrections
5. List the goals of sentencing
Answer Punish the ottender Rehabilitate the ottender
6. Determine when it is permissible for citizens to film police
Answer At least one party of the encounter consents
When the oflcers are carrying out their duties in public so as long it does not interfere with the oflcers
7. Identify the relationship between race, genetics and physical characteristics-
Answer Race is a modern concept used to classify people by similar, observable physical characteristics
8. Identify the connection between in-groups, out-groups, and police legitima-
cy.
Answer Some individuals interpret their encounters with police in terms of their groups societal position rather than
or in addition to the immediate circumstances of police contact.
9. Differentiate the types of racism
Answer Individual Racism- INTERNALIZED, UNEXPRESSED biases and prejudices based on race.
,Interpersonal Racism—Occurs between INDIVIDUALS. Includes public expressions of racial prejudices and hate made
by individuals.
10. Identify the components of biases
Answer STEREOTYPES
ATTITUDES
PREJUDICE
11. Differentiate bias-based profiling and criminal profiling
Answer Bias-based profiling is un-
equal treatment by a law enforcement oflcer of any person by stopping, questioning, searching, detaining, or arresting
, on the basis of the person's ethnic or racial characteristics.
Criminal profiling is based on observed behaviors and characteristics.
12. Differentiate the two modes of thinking
Answer (System 1) Automatic thinking Unconscious, ettortless, automatic, uses
associative memory, very fast
(System 2) Deliberative thinking
Conscious, ettortful, controlled, deliberative, slower
13. Explain the generally accepted ethical responsibilities of peace officers
Answer - your community
- your agency
- the profession
- the family
- yourself
