MPTC PATROL EXAM ACTUAL EXAM ALL 200 QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED VERIFIED SOLUTIONS 2024-2025
What isnt protected under the 1st amendment - ANSWER-Obscenity
Fighting words
Threats
Incendiary Speech
QUESTION: What are the three types of crowds? - ANSWER-Event-based
Public Demonstration
Civil Disturbance
QUESTION: What are the common tyoes of crowd dynamics - ANSWER-Personal Identity
Social Identity
Emotional contagion
QUESTION: MGL 269 s. 1 - Group Disorder - ANSWER-It is unlawful for 5 or more people who
are armed with dangerous weapons : or 10 or more people armed or not, to riotously or
tumultuously assemble in a city or town
QUESTION: MGL 41 s. 98 - Officers power to disperse an assembly - ANSWER-- chief and officers
can break up a group of 3 or more persons and may enter a building to suppress a riot or
breach of peace therein
* It is per se unreasonable for officers to cross a threshold to effect a warrantless arrest absent
exigency
QUESTION: Four (4) key objectives of crime prevention - ANSWER-1 Deter
2 Deny
3 Delay
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4 Detect
QUESTION: Types of deterrence - ANSWER-general: targets those who have never committed a
crime by instilling fear of consequences
mechanical : measures and strategies that make it more difficult for would be offenders to
commit a crime
casual : aims to remove causes or conditions that create a desire to commit crime
rehabilitative: people who have been arrested; working with them on social, financial or other
conditions to prevent repeat crimes
QUESTION: 5 types of risk management - ANSWER-risk avoidance
risk reduction
risk spreading
risk transfer
risk acceptance
QUESTION: Tennessee v. Garner - ANSWER-police may use deadly force to stop a fleeing
suspect from escaping if:
1 - suspect threatens the officer with a weapon; or there is probable cause to believe the
suspect committed a crime involving serious physical harm
2 - deadly force is necessary to prevent escape
3 - where feasible, some warning was given
QUESTION: MGL 6E s. 14(a) december 2021 - ANSWER-officers shall not use physical force upon
another unless de-escalation tactics have been attempted and failed or are not feasible based
on totality of the circumstances and such force is necessary to effect lawful arrest or detention
of a person
QUESTION: 6 Parts of a handgun - ANSWER-Front sight
QUESTION: Graham v. Connor - ANSWER-determined that the reasonableness of a particular
use of force must be judged from the perspective of how a reasonable officer on the scene
would respond, rather than from the 20/20 perspective of hindsight.
- reasonableness
- totality of circumstances
- officer perception
QUESTION: Types of Braking - ANSWER-Threshold braking: used to stop or reduce vehicle speed
as quickly as possible, activate brakes and maintain maximum pedal pressure without activating
ABS
Trail braking: braking and turning at the same time, done while driving in a straight line to slow
vehicle speed before entering and making a turn
QUESTION: What is the process of Defensive Driving? - ANSWER-Reduce speed
identify actual or potential hazards
deiced on the safest course of action
execute the driving decision
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