OPOTA Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers 100% Verified 2024/2025
Abduction - Correct Answer Placed in fear
Explain the relationship between a SPO and a test question - Correct Answer The test question must respond directly to an SPO and every SPO may be the basis of a test question
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OPOTA Practice Test Questions with Correct Answers
100% Verified 2024/2025
Abduction - Correct Answer Placed in fear
Explain the relationship between a SPO and a test question - Correct Answer The test question must respond directly to an SPO and every SPO may be the basis of a test question
Explain the ultimate reason for law enforcement training - Correct Answer To be able to protect the life and property of yourself and the public
4511 - Correct Answer Traffic Laws - operation of motor vehicles
4513 - Correct Answer Equipment Violations
4549 - Correct Answer Criminal Traffic section
4510 - Correct Answer Covers driver's license suspensions
List a Peace officers main goals - Correct Answer -enforce laws
-preserve the peace
-prevent crimes
-protect civil rights and liberties
-provide services
Explain the factors necessary for the commission of a crime - Correct Answer Opportunity, Ability, and Desire
State the purpose of the Bill of Rights - Correct Answer -Protect an individual's freedoms
-Prevent the government from interfering in protected rights
Laws are designed to - Correct Answer -Maintain order
-enhance predictability -promote orderly social change
-sustain individual rights
-identify wrongdoers
-mandate punishment
Describe the major components of the criminal justice system - Correct Answer Law enforcement, courts, corrections
Identify the relationship between race, genetics, and physical characteristics - Correct Answer Race is
a modern concept used to classify people as similar, observable physical characteristics, it is not based on genetics.
humans are genetically similar of all species, there is no distinct genetic profile that completely distinguishes one so called race from another.
The connection between in-groups and out-groups and police legitimacy - Correct Answer Some individuals interpret their encounters with police in terms of their groups societal position rather than the immediate circumstance of the police contact
Types of Racism - Correct Answer -Individual -Interpersonal
-Institutional
-Structural
Two types of Bias - Correct Answer Explicit bias and implicit bias - common characteristics
• Everyone possesses them
• They have real-world effects on behavior
• They can relate, for example, to race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, height, weight, or age
Explicit bias - conscious preference (positive or negative) for a social category
Implicit bias - preference (positive or negative) for a social category based on stereotypes or attitudes
that we hold and tend to develop early in life and that operate outside of our awareness
Two modes of thinking - Correct Answer Automatic (System 1) - unconscious
-effortless
-automatic
-uses associative memory
-very fast
More deliberative (System 2)
-conscious
-effortful
-controlled
-deliberative
-slower
Strategies to Counter Implicit Biases - Correct Answer - Guard against influence
- Recognize everyone is Bias
- Seek awareness and education
- Know you are susceptible
Explain the generally accepted ethical responsibilities of peace officers - Correct Answer owed to -
- your community and its citizens
- the law enforcement profession
- your agency
- your family and self
NEVER - - allow cynicism to cloud your view of the people you serve
- use excessive physical force when controlling a combative
- accept gratuities
- commit perjury
Determine External and internal influences on behavior - Correct Answer External -
- relationships with family and friends - local citizens - local media - department regulations - interdepartmental politics
Internal - - officers own ethical and moral beliefs and values - Anger - Greed - Lust
Explain the continuum of compromise - Correct Answer Being exposed on a regular basis to "special authority" and at the same time being exposed on a daily basis to harsh realities and an element of society that operates without values combine to severely challenge an officer's core values system
Transformation from idealistic, ethical officer to self-serving, unethical officer is typically a subtle process
Acts of Omission
Occur when officers rationalize and justify not doing things for which they are responsible
Includes passive resistance to organizational mandates and selective non-productivity.
Acts of Commission - Administrative
Officers begin to commit administrative violations
Officer will typically face department sanctions, but not criminal prosecution
Acts of Commission - Criminal
At first, acts may appear innocuous and not much different than acts of administrative commission
Common examples are theft and misappropriation
Rationalization - nobody is being hurt, except for possibly the bad guys, who deserve it anyways
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