OPOTA EXAM AND OPOTA EXAM STUDYGUIDE LATEST ACTUAL EXAM
500 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) | AREADY GRADED A
Police officer main goals - ANSWER: - enforce Laws
- Preserve the peace
- prevent crime
- protect civil rights and liberties
- provide services
Easiest crime triangle to change - ANSWER: Opportunity
Factors necessary for the commission of a crime (Crime Triangle) - ANSWER: - Desire
- Victim
- Opportunity
Purpose of the bill of rights - ANSWER: - Protect an individual's freedoms
- Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
3 major components of the criminal justice system - 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 - ANSWER: - Punish the offender in many cases, rehabilitate the
offender
- Protect society
- Restore the victim as much as possible
Race - 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 - 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 - 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 - ANSWER: Occurs between individuals, includes public
expressions of racial prejudice and hate by individuals
Components of bias - 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 - ANSWER: No
difference
Professional codes of ethics and professional codes of conduct
Are owed to: - ANSWER: - community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- agency
- family
- yourself
Plus model - 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 - 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 - ANSWER: who
what
when
where
why
how
Components to be a well written report FACTO - ANSWER: - Factual
, - Accurate
- Complete
- Objective
- Concise
- Clear
- Grammatically and mechanically correct
Culpable mental states - ANSWER: - Purposely
- knowingly
- recklessly
- negligently
General power to exercise authority over people - ANSWER: Jurisdiction
Force - ANSWER: Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any
means on or against a person or thing
Different examples of court cases - ANSWER: Criminal, tort, statute
Deadly force - ANSWER: Any force that carries a substantial risk that will proximate
result in the death of any person
John keys Susan's car and leaves a 3-inch scratch on the paint what kind of harm is
it? - ANSWER: Physical harm
Tim pays Tom to burn down his bar and Tom gets arrested later that day, is there a
crime? - ANSWER: Yes
Conspiracy
Arson
Susan goes to school yelling at a teacher, she refuses to check in at the front desk, is
there a crime? - ANSWER: Yes
Trespassing
John was driving drunk and got into an accident killing someone, is there a crime? -
ANSWER: Yes
Aggravated vehicular homicide
Susan hops in the car with john and after a fight she wants to get out of the car, but
john keeps driving, is there a crime? - ANSWER: Yes
Unlawful restraint
Sexual conduct - ANSWER: Vaginal intercourse between a male and female; anal
intercourse, fellatio, and cunnilingus between persons
regardless of sex; and, without privilege to do so, the
insertion, however slight, of any part of the body or any
500 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) | AREADY GRADED A
Police officer main goals - ANSWER: - enforce Laws
- Preserve the peace
- prevent crime
- protect civil rights and liberties
- provide services
Easiest crime triangle to change - ANSWER: Opportunity
Factors necessary for the commission of a crime (Crime Triangle) - ANSWER: - Desire
- Victim
- Opportunity
Purpose of the bill of rights - ANSWER: - Protect an individual's freedoms
- Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
3 major components of the criminal justice system - 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 - ANSWER: - Punish the offender in many cases, rehabilitate the
offender
- Protect society
- Restore the victim as much as possible
Race - 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 - 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 - 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 - ANSWER: Occurs between individuals, includes public
expressions of racial prejudice and hate by individuals
Components of bias - 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 - ANSWER: No
difference
Professional codes of ethics and professional codes of conduct
Are owed to: - ANSWER: - community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- agency
- family
- yourself
Plus model - 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 - 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 - ANSWER: who
what
when
where
why
how
Components to be a well written report FACTO - ANSWER: - Factual
, - Accurate
- Complete
- Objective
- Concise
- Clear
- Grammatically and mechanically correct
Culpable mental states - ANSWER: - Purposely
- knowingly
- recklessly
- negligently
General power to exercise authority over people - ANSWER: Jurisdiction
Force - ANSWER: Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any
means on or against a person or thing
Different examples of court cases - ANSWER: Criminal, tort, statute
Deadly force - ANSWER: Any force that carries a substantial risk that will proximate
result in the death of any person
John keys Susan's car and leaves a 3-inch scratch on the paint what kind of harm is
it? - ANSWER: Physical harm
Tim pays Tom to burn down his bar and Tom gets arrested later that day, is there a
crime? - ANSWER: Yes
Conspiracy
Arson
Susan goes to school yelling at a teacher, she refuses to check in at the front desk, is
there a crime? - ANSWER: Yes
Trespassing
John was driving drunk and got into an accident killing someone, is there a crime? -
ANSWER: Yes
Aggravated vehicular homicide
Susan hops in the car with john and after a fight she wants to get out of the car, but
john keeps driving, is there a crime? - ANSWER: Yes
Unlawful restraint
Sexual conduct - ANSWER: Vaginal intercourse between a male and female; anal
intercourse, fellatio, and cunnilingus between persons
regardless of sex; and, without privilege to do so, the
insertion, however slight, of any part of the body or any
