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OPOTA Final Exam Questions And 100% Accurate AnswersPolice officer key responsibilities Answer - Enforce Laws
- Maintain order
- prevent crime
- Protection of civil rights and personal freedoms
- provide service
Easiest crime triangle to change - Answer Opportunity
List the three elements that need to be present to be able to commit a crime. Crime
Triangle - Answer - Desire
- Victim
- Opportunity
Bill of rights purpose - Answer - Protect an individual's freedoms
- Prevent government intrusion into individual's protected rights
3 major components of the criminal justice system - Answer Law enforcement
- Maintain order
- Capture violators and fight crime
- Prevent crime
Courts
- provide fair and unbiased trial
- decide guilt or innocence
,- sentence the guilty
Corrections
- assume responsibility for supervising offender
- prison/county jails
- parole/probation
- work release programs
Goal of sentencing - Answer - To punish the offender in many instances, rehabilitate the
offender
- To protect the 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 performing duties in public, so long as it does not impede the
officers performing duties
Police legitimacy - Answer Police legitimacy - exists when the public believes police are
entitled to use power to maintain social order, manage conflict and resolve problems in
society
interpersonal racism - Answer Occurs between individuals, involves public displays of
racial bigotry and hatred on the parts of individuals
elements of discrimination - Answer PREJUDICES
- A typically unfavorable preconceived opinion about something, such as a person's
race, age, sex, etc., that is not necessarily rational nor sensible
, Difference between biased profiling and criminal profiling - Answer There is no
difference
Codes of professional ethics and codes of professional conduct
are as a result of: - Answer - community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- agency
- family
- yourself
Plus model - Answer P= Policies- is it in line with my agency's policies?
L= Legal- whether the action is legal
U= Universal- whether it applies to the universal principles and values of my agency
S= Self- whether it agrees with my beliefs of what is right, good and fair
what is on your field notes - Answer - victims, witnesses, suspects person involved
- dates and times relating to event
- location of occurrence
- type of place offense or incident occurred
- offense or incident details being reported
- disposition of evidence, property and subjects
- report # assigned
Name
What are the 5 essential questions to be answered in a report - Answer who
what
when
where
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