Police Ethics- chapter 1, Introduction

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Name of authors and Universities they teach at

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Douglas Perez, Plattsburgh State Univ

J Alan Moore, Lyndon State College

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When Police look the other way, overlook or overemphasize certain types of crimes

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Decriminalized

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Justice prevails when people under similiar circumstances are treated n an equal and fair manner before the law

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Justice as process

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Justice prevails when people receive from the law what they deserve to receive

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Justice as substance

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refers to the problem-solving methods utilized among professionals

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collegial

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Philosophy of modern professional policing

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Community Oriented Policing

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CSI Affect

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

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Police invoked justice on the streets, often invoking excessive force

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curbside-justice

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

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Dirty Harry problem

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discretionary decision making

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choosing beween options, especially when deciding how to invoke the law

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

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deontology

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

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the good

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Justice defined as equal treatment

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justice as process

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justice as what a person deserves

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justice as substance

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police behaving as if they are foreigners, repressing american citizens

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occupying army

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noble cause corruption

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

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defined variously, but in this context the police taking a place among doctors, lawyers etc

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professionalism

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

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self-disciplining

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

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self-regulation

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the position that design or ultimate purpose is a principle that organizes growth or development; overall purpose of a thing or action that guides its development toward a particular end

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teleology

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“You treat everyone the same, kid. Your civil to everyone and cordial to no one. Everyone deserves some amount of respect, but no one deserves courtesty..That’s Kilvinsky’s Law.”

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Veteran officer Kilvinsky, speaking to a rookie in move “The New Centurions

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Ours is a country of law and of constitutional principles, the sole purpose of which is to create a society where everybody is free to pursue what he or she, individually believes is ?

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The good in life- that is, in his or her own life

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Pursuit of happiness in the declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson- reference to “the good in life” by “pursuit of happines in the Declaration of Indep

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“Good” in life

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it is a life that is personally satisfying and meaningful to the individual and is the driving movtivation of everyone

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What provides the environment within which the pursuit of the good (happiness) is possible.

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Justice

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Two concepts to consider regarding Justice

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Fairness | justice

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greek notion that it is the kind of balance that exists when "each is given his or her due

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consider justice to be the Greek notion

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streets of america must be ruled by laws that are applied

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fairly

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what determines the effects the legal system will have on the lives of individual citizens

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when officers decide on a day to day basis where to focus their attention, whom to arrest and when to use force

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by avoiding the dictates of the law in this and a thousand other ways, the police can create the impression that police practices are

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arbitrary, preferential or biased. | such impression promote cynicism amoung citizens and alienate them from the criminal justice system.

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curbside justice, "the exercise of absolute police power"

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1966 in spain, dictator generalissimo Francisco was in power.

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How officers use discretion is of absolute importance to who?

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communities, criminal justice system, and America herself.

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Two definitions of Justice

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* justice as process-Justice prevails when people are treated in an equal and fair manner before law * justice as substance-Justice prevails when people receive from the law what they deserve to receive

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Decision of the police define justice in both of the senses that

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justice as fairness | justice in terms of distribution

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Police ethics are not and cannot be considered something seperate from

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police competence

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philosophy

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the idea of maintaining a critical frame of mind, a discerning judgment

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Socrates called philosolphy

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the examined life.

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A philosophic perspective is ?

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the effort to see clearly, to see the reality of situations.

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discussions about morality have been discussed for more than how many years?

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two thousand years

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Nationalwide survey found that state regulations require an average of how many hrs of ethics training in an entire police academy expereince

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three and one-half hours

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Being a professional officer is?

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police officer who possesses and exhibits good character

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Why should a police officer study ethics?

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A clear ethic anchors the officer in the good of the community. Without that ethic, the officer is rudderless and lacks personal direction.

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it is the officers ethical outlook, revolving around his or her personal character, that

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over time promotes respect for the police and trust in the police officer

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standard definition of a profession cited by sociologists is

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an occupation that involves the practitioner in academic experience of substantial sophistication

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Several elements are endemic to the professional

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self regulation solve problems in a collegial way self disciplining

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Dirty Harry problem

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considered to be the centrally most important element of police misconduct in todays world.

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Dirty Harry's problem involved

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supposedly noble cause of attempting to get the job done.

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police to become involved in Dirty Harry-vigalante justice has been labeled

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CSI effect.

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What has become the most difficult type of misconduct to deter in contemporary American policing.

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Dirty Harry problem

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another way of labeling the Dirty Harry problem or CSI effect is

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noble cause corruption

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Ethical frame of reference that has been created specifically for the police prof

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an ethic to live by

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One of the most studied ethical frames of reference

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ethical formalism

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German philosopher whose ethic, the Categorical Imperative

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Immanuel Kant

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Categorical Imperative

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a nonreligious version of the New Testament's "Golden Rule" (Jesus said, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

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Kant's ethic is what philosophers call

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Deontological perspective- a person has a duty to be reasonable.

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deontological perspective

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a term that indicates that a person has a duty to be reasonable. Kant maintains that the individual can only be held accoutable for that over which he has immediate control and in our condeuct the only thing we absolutely control is our intention

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what is the defining trait that makes us human

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Reason

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human beings stand under a genetic or inborn obligation to

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live reasonably.

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For Kant, what is the chief enemy of morality

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arbitrariness

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action that would be applicable to everyone in a similiar situation can be called reasonalbe and not self centered or arbitrary. Kant called this

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categorical imperative

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Second school of thought is

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Utilitarianism

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best known modern version of which is called utilitarianiism involves attempting to calculate the impact upon others of ones actions at any given moment.

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teleological

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This Books Central Arguement

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Ethics and competence are directly linked and inseparable. Both are largely determined by the individual police officers character

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Good ethical conduct is determined primarily by what a person already is before he or she enrolls in police academy. Comes from a persons character and upbringing. That is, an ?

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"ethically disposed" personality trait.

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To be a competent police officer is to be an _____ police officer. It is impossible to achieve the former without achieving the latter.

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ethical

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The critical factor in police competence is ____ ___

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ethical judgement