Opota Ohio Peace Officer Basic /393
Questions and Answers/ Graded A+ .
List the Officer's Main Goals - - Keep the Peace
Prevent Crime
Up-hold the People's Rights
Provide Services
-Considerations When Exercising Discretion - - Situation
Background
Consequences
Severity
-Reason for Law Enforcement Training - - To Protect Life and Property of yourself and
the public.
-What is the relationship between a SPO and a Test Question? - - 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? - - Desire
Victim
Opportunity
-Core Concepts of Community Policing - - -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 - - Behavior
Situational Awareness
-Purpose of the Bill of Rights - - Protecting an Individual's Freedoms
-Major Components of the Criminal Justice System - - Law Enforcement
Court
Corrections
-Goals of Sentencing - - Punish the offender
Rehabilitate the offender
Protect Society
Restore the Victim
-Concepts of Lawful actions and Police Legitimacy - - 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? - - - 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. - -
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 - - -Individual
-Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural
-Components of Bias - - - Stereotypes
- Prejudices
- Attitude
-Bias-Based Profiling VS Criminal Profiling - - Bias-Based
* Racial
* Gender
* Religion
* Sexual Orientation
Criminal
*Based on observed behavior and characteristics.
-List the Two Modes of Thinking - - - Attitude
- More Deliberate
-Strategies to Counter Implicit Biases - - - Guard against influence
- Recognize everyone is Bias
- Seek awareness and education
- Know you are susceptible
-Two-pronged approach to Criminal Justice - - - Person based approach
- Community based model
-Bank Account Concept of Procedural Justice - - Every Encounter is a deposit or
withdraw on Police Legitimacy.
-List the 4 core principles of Procedural Justice - - - Giving others a voice
- Neutrality in decision making
- Respectful Treatment
- Trustworthiness
-Ethical Responsibilities - - - Community & Citizens
- Law Enforcement
- Your Agency
,- Your Family
- Yourself
-External Influences on Behavior - - - Friends and Family
- Citizens
- Media
- Department Regulations
- Policies
- Police Subculture
- Sense of community
- Fidelity / Loyalty
-Internal Influences on Behavior - - - Own ethical and moral beliefs
- Anger
- Greed
- Lust
- Internal Rationalizations
-Continuum of Compromise - - - Process
- Victimization
- Acts of omission
- Acts of commission / Action
- Acts of Commission / Criminal
-List the PLUS model - - Policies - are they consistent with agency?
Legal - Is it lawful?
Universal - are the policies universal?
Self - Does it align with my beliefs?
-Uses of Field Notes - - - Preserve Knowledge
- Foundation of a formal report
- Aids in further investigation
- Evidence in court
- Documents officer's efforts
-Types of info in field notes - - - Info on victim, witness and suspect
- Date/ Time
- Location
- Details of incident
- Disposition of evidence, property, and subject
- Report number
-Essential Questions to answer in a Report - - - who
- what
- when
- where
- why
- how
, -Requirements of a well written report - - - Complete
- Factual
- Accurate
-Explain Crime - - An act that the law makes punishable.
-Name 4 mental states - - - Purposely
- Knowingly
- Recklessly
- Negligently
* Strict Liability
-Define Purposely - - - Intention to cause a certain result
- The offender intended to engage
-Define Knowingly - - - Aware that the conduct will probably cause a certain result
-Define Recklessly - - - Heedless indifference to the consequences
-Define Negligently - - Substantial lapse from due care, fails to perceive or avoid a risk
that one's conduct may cause a certain result.
-Explain Jurisdiction - - - A government's power to exercise authority over all persons
and things within a territory.
-Statutory Law - - The body of law derived from statutes.
-Case Law - - The law found in the collection of reported cases that form all or part of
the body of the law within a given jurisdiction.
-Define Force - - Any violence, compulsion or constraint physically extended by any
means on or against a person or thing.
-Define Deadly Force - - Any force which carries a substantial risk that it will
proximately result in the death of any person
-Physical Harm - - Any injury, illness, or other physiological impairment regardless of
gravity or duration.
-Serious Physical Harm - - - Any mental illness or condition of such gravity that would
require hospitalization.
- Any physical harm with substantial risk of death.
- Permanent or temporary incapacity.
- Permanent or temporary serious disfigurement.
- Any Physical harm that involves acute prolonged pain or substantial suffering.
-Physical Harm to Property - - - Any tangible or intangible damage to property that
results in loss of value or interferes with enjoyment.
Questions and Answers/ Graded A+ .
List the Officer's Main Goals - - Keep the Peace
Prevent Crime
Up-hold the People's Rights
Provide Services
-Considerations When Exercising Discretion - - Situation
Background
Consequences
Severity
-Reason for Law Enforcement Training - - To Protect Life and Property of yourself and
the public.
-What is the relationship between a SPO and a Test Question? - - 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? - - Desire
Victim
Opportunity
-Core Concepts of Community Policing - - -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 - - Behavior
Situational Awareness
-Purpose of the Bill of Rights - - Protecting an Individual's Freedoms
-Major Components of the Criminal Justice System - - Law Enforcement
Court
Corrections
-Goals of Sentencing - - Punish the offender
Rehabilitate the offender
Protect Society
Restore the Victim
-Concepts of Lawful actions and Police Legitimacy - - 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? - - - 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. - -
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 - - -Individual
-Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural
-Components of Bias - - - Stereotypes
- Prejudices
- Attitude
-Bias-Based Profiling VS Criminal Profiling - - Bias-Based
* Racial
* Gender
* Religion
* Sexual Orientation
Criminal
*Based on observed behavior and characteristics.
-List the Two Modes of Thinking - - - Attitude
- More Deliberate
-Strategies to Counter Implicit Biases - - - Guard against influence
- Recognize everyone is Bias
- Seek awareness and education
- Know you are susceptible
-Two-pronged approach to Criminal Justice - - - Person based approach
- Community based model
-Bank Account Concept of Procedural Justice - - Every Encounter is a deposit or
withdraw on Police Legitimacy.
-List the 4 core principles of Procedural Justice - - - Giving others a voice
- Neutrality in decision making
- Respectful Treatment
- Trustworthiness
-Ethical Responsibilities - - - Community & Citizens
- Law Enforcement
- Your Agency
,- Your Family
- Yourself
-External Influences on Behavior - - - Friends and Family
- Citizens
- Media
- Department Regulations
- Policies
- Police Subculture
- Sense of community
- Fidelity / Loyalty
-Internal Influences on Behavior - - - Own ethical and moral beliefs
- Anger
- Greed
- Lust
- Internal Rationalizations
-Continuum of Compromise - - - Process
- Victimization
- Acts of omission
- Acts of commission / Action
- Acts of Commission / Criminal
-List the PLUS model - - Policies - are they consistent with agency?
Legal - Is it lawful?
Universal - are the policies universal?
Self - Does it align with my beliefs?
-Uses of Field Notes - - - Preserve Knowledge
- Foundation of a formal report
- Aids in further investigation
- Evidence in court
- Documents officer's efforts
-Types of info in field notes - - - Info on victim, witness and suspect
- Date/ Time
- Location
- Details of incident
- Disposition of evidence, property, and subject
- Report number
-Essential Questions to answer in a Report - - - who
- what
- when
- where
- why
- how
, -Requirements of a well written report - - - Complete
- Factual
- Accurate
-Explain Crime - - An act that the law makes punishable.
-Name 4 mental states - - - Purposely
- Knowingly
- Recklessly
- Negligently
* Strict Liability
-Define Purposely - - - Intention to cause a certain result
- The offender intended to engage
-Define Knowingly - - - Aware that the conduct will probably cause a certain result
-Define Recklessly - - - Heedless indifference to the consequences
-Define Negligently - - Substantial lapse from due care, fails to perceive or avoid a risk
that one's conduct may cause a certain result.
-Explain Jurisdiction - - - A government's power to exercise authority over all persons
and things within a territory.
-Statutory Law - - The body of law derived from statutes.
-Case Law - - The law found in the collection of reported cases that form all or part of
the body of the law within a given jurisdiction.
-Define Force - - Any violence, compulsion or constraint physically extended by any
means on or against a person or thing.
-Define Deadly Force - - Any force which carries a substantial risk that it will
proximately result in the death of any person
-Physical Harm - - Any injury, illness, or other physiological impairment regardless of
gravity or duration.
-Serious Physical Harm - - - Any mental illness or condition of such gravity that would
require hospitalization.
- Any physical harm with substantial risk of death.
- Permanent or temporary incapacity.
- Permanent or temporary serious disfigurement.
- Any Physical harm that involves acute prolonged pain or substantial suffering.
-Physical Harm to Property - - - Any tangible or intangible damage to property that
results in loss of value or interferes with enjoyment.
