MPTC Patrol Test Questions with Complete Solutions

MPTC Patrol Test Questions with Complete Solutions 100% Verified 2024/2025 What isnt protected under the 1st amendment - Correct Answers Obscenity Fighting words Threats Incendiary Speech What are the three types of crowds? - Correct Answers Event-based Public Demonstration Civil Disturbance What are the common tyoes of crowd dynamics - Correct Answers Personal Identity Social Identity Emotional contagion MGL 269 s. 1 - Group Disorder - Correct Answers 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 MGL 41 s. 98 - Officers power to disperse an assembly - Correct Answers - 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 Four (4) key objectives of crime prevention - Correct Answers 1 Deter

• Deny
• Delay
• Detect

Types of deterrence - Correct Answers 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 1 / 2

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

• types of risk management - Correct Answers risk avoidance

risk reduction risk spreading risk transfer risk acceptance Tennessee v. Garner - Correct Answers police may use deadly force to stop a fleeing suspect from

escaping if:

• - suspect threatens the officer with a weapon; or there is probable cause to believe the suspect

committed a crime involving serious physical harm

• - deadly force is necessary to prevent escape
• - where feasible, some warning was given

MGL 6E s. 14(a) december 2021 - Correct Answers 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

• Parts of a handgun - Correct Answers Front sight

rear sight trigger magazine release magazine slide lock Graham v. Connor - Correct Answers 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
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