OPOTA Final exam (Answered) 149
Questions and Correct Answers, 100%
Correct. Latest Fall 2024/2025.
Police officer main goals
- enforce Laws
- Preserve the peace
- prevent crime
- protect civil rights and liberties
- provide services
Easiest crime triangle to change
Opportunity
Factors necessary for the commission of a crime (Crime Triangle)
- Desire
- Victim
- Opportunity
Purpose of the bill of rights
- Protect an individual's freedoms
- Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
3 major components of the criminal justice system
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
- Punish the offender in many cases, rehabilitate the offender
- Protect society
- Restore the victim as much as possible
Race
- 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
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
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
Occurs between individuals, includes public expressions of racial prejudice and hate by individuals
Components of bias
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
No difference
Professional codes of ethics and professional codes of conduct
Are owed to:
- community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- agency
- family
- yourself
Plus model
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
- 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
who
what
when
where
why
how
Components to be a well written report FACTO
- Factual
- Accurate
- Complete
- Objective
- Concise
- Clear
- Grammatically and mechanically correct
Culpable mental states
- Purposely
- knowingly
- recklessly
- negligently
General power to exercise authority over people
Jurisdiction
Force
Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any means on or against a person or thing
Different examples of court cases
Criminal, tort, statute
Questions and Correct Answers, 100%
Correct. Latest Fall 2024/2025.
Police officer main goals
- enforce Laws
- Preserve the peace
- prevent crime
- protect civil rights and liberties
- provide services
Easiest crime triangle to change
Opportunity
Factors necessary for the commission of a crime (Crime Triangle)
- Desire
- Victim
- Opportunity
Purpose of the bill of rights
- Protect an individual's freedoms
- Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
3 major components of the criminal justice system
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
- Punish the offender in many cases, rehabilitate the offender
- Protect society
- Restore the victim as much as possible
Race
- 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
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
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
Occurs between individuals, includes public expressions of racial prejudice and hate by individuals
Components of bias
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
No difference
Professional codes of ethics and professional codes of conduct
Are owed to:
- community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- agency
- family
- yourself
Plus model
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
- 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
who
what
when
where
why
how
Components to be a well written report FACTO
- Factual
- Accurate
- Complete
- Objective
- Concise
- Clear
- Grammatically and mechanically correct
Culpable mental states
- Purposely
- knowingly
- recklessly
- negligently
General power to exercise authority over people
Jurisdiction
Force
Any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any means on or against a person or thing
Different examples of court cases
Criminal, tort, statute
