OPOTA Final exam!
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
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
