Police Ethics: A Matter Of Character

Question 1

Community Oriented Policing (COP)

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Philosophy of Modern, professional policing

Question 2

Occupying Army

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Laws are created by legislatures, and the police cannot think or act as if they are completely free, by themselves, to define legal and illegal, to decide who are inherently good people an who are inherently bad people, or to rule the streets as occupying army

Question 3

Collegial

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As colleagues; refers to the problem-solving methods utilized among professionals.

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CSI Effect

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The idea that the media presents unrealistic images to the public of the police, how they operate, and what they are capable of accomplishing

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Curbside Justice:

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Police-invoked justice on the streets, often involving the use of excessive force

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Decriminalization

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Making something that is a crime into a non-crime through the exercise of police discretion

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Dirty Harry Problem

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The idea that some police officers will break the procedural law in order to enforce substantive law; done in the name of getting the job done.

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Discretionary decision making

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Choosing between options, especially when deciding how to invoke the law

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Deontology

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Judgements of moral obligation; a term used for ethical systems that identify a person’s intentions as the center of moral gravity

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Ethical Dilemma

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A choice between incompatible course of action, each which is ethically defensible

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The Good

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That which makes a person’s life worthwhile, happy, sustaining; defined uniquely by each individual for themselves; “the pursuit of happiness” as defined by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

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Justice as process

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Justice defined as equal treatment

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Justice as substance

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Justice as what a person deserves

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Noble cause corruption

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Dirty Harry-like behavior; involves police officers breaking the procedure law in order to enforce substantive law

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Occupying Army

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The police behaving as if they are the foreigners, repressing American citizens

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Professionalism

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Defined Variously, but in this context the police taking a place among doctors, lawyer, etc.

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Self-Disciplining

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The practice of professionals setting up standard of conduct for their own profession and then holding the peers accountable to the same

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Self-Regulation

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The practice of professionals developing and applying their own standards to their endeavor-standards involving minimum educational standards, licensing requirements, training practices, and so forth

Question 19

Teleology

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The position that design or ultimate purpose is a principle that organizes growth or development; the overall purpose of a thing or action that guides its development toward a particle end. For example, the oak tree is the telos (the natural end) of an acorn.

Question 20

Sir Robert Peel and the English Parliament

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Created the first English Police Force in 1829 (The Metropolitan Police of London) they considered that they created a “professional” police force.

Question 21

Chains Of Command

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Organizational system wherein order are devloped at upper levels and handed down the hierachy to be followed by lower-level functionaries.

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Collegial problem solving

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professional mode of solving problems wherein peers come together and find solutions in a equitable and democratic fashion.

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Field Training Officers

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Experienced officers who train and mentor rookie officers out on the street after thy have completed the academy experience

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Integrated passion

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Understanding that it is morally acceptable to use coercion in the name of accomplishing good ends.

Question 25

Internal Affairs

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Police internal sub-organization in charge of investigating allegations of misconduct

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Metropolitan Police Of London

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The first uniformed and organized police department in the Western World

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Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST)

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State-Level commission that develops professional standards for police officers education and certification.

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Sir Robert Peel

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Prime Minister of England who sponsored the legislation creating the Metropolitan Police in1829

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Political Era

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The first era of American Policing, whirring the police were controlled directly by machine politics.

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Reform Era

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Time frame when the American police were reorganized and paramilitarism was exchanged for the older, politically controlled way organization

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Self-Discipline

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Refers to professional having the power to sanction the misconduct of their own peers

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Self-Regulation

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Refers to professionals having the power to set standars for their own occupations

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Systematized body of knowledge

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The occupation-specific information gleaned by professionals in their academic experience

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Tragic perspective

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Muir’s ideal for the professional police officer; includes the ideas of the unitary experience of humankind, complex causal patters, an the necessity of human interdependence.