Police Ethics-Chapter 13, Practical Applications

Question 1

“In this life, you don’t have to prove nothin to nobody but yourself”

Answer 1

From the movie Rudy

Question 2

Most important leader in the life of the individual police officer is the immediate supervisore

Answer 2

sergeant

Question 3

sergeant’s strategies

Answer 3

1. provide specific, important rewards for good work
2. allow innovation and mistakes
3. teach circumspection about use of force
4. encourage the avoidance of subcultural negativity
5. motivate, coach, teach and persuade
6. encourage the development of personal ethic

Question 4

What better little phrase could there be for a contemporary sergeant to utilize to help with his focus when dealing with subordinates and their key role as ethical advisor

Answer 4

teach and persuade

Question 5

first and perhaps most important teaching job required of sergeants is that they nurture in their subordinates an understanding of and a feeling for the _____

Answer 5

ethical elements of police work

Question 6

second critical substantive piece of teaching for the sergeant relates to the _____

Answer 6

use of force

Question 7

Third, sergeant needs to do everything possible to dissuade officer from sticking by those__________norms that are most deleterious to the best interests of justice.

Answer 7

subcultural

Question 8

caught between the proverbial rock and hard place, the ____________faces tough challenge

Answer 8

middle manager

Question 9

middle managers serves as

Answer 9

glue that holds together upper level policy makers and the line officers on street.
Evaluate implementation strategies and evaluate and assess officers

Question 10

Chief of police must operate within an ongoing paradox, that of ____and ___ at same time

Answer 10

teaching democracy and legality

Question 11

chief can do two important things to send out important message about ethics.

Answer 11

1. when a person becomes a sergeant, there is an open window with respect to the machinations of internal affiars. The newly sergeant spend a week or so in IA.
2. no-nonsense message about how the dept is run and what is prioritized, chief should put the best and brightest investigators into IA

Question 12

It is important to consider non-judicialized accountability mechanisms for two reasons.

Answer 12

1. This is where and how most police misconduct is handled. It is done informally
2. within this process, that leaders have their most obvious and ongoing chance to make a difference in world of police accountability by using their imagination and creativity

Question 13

_and _can increase if and only if academy training begins to take ethics seriously

Answer 13

Accountability and professionalism

Question 14

This is the focal point of a great deal of consideration paid to ethics in general and to the proactive creation of the individual officers internalized ethic in particular

Answer 14

FTO training

Question 15

Best and brightest veteran officers should be involved as FTO, but the average number of year of experience possessed by FTO’s today has dropped down to less than ___

Answer 15

2 yrs

Question 16

Criteria of Evaluation for police review systems

Answer 16

1. Integrity- openness, objectivity and fairness of systemic processes
2. Legitimacy-externally held perceptions of systemic integrity
3. Learning- propensity for errant officers to change their behavior in a positive direction
4. Cost- fiscal impact of review upon local budgets

Question 17

Since the Wickersham Commission of early 1930s, the idea of having someone other than police review allegation of police misconduct has been controversial topic.

Answer 17

Comparative Police Review Systems

Question 18

overwhelming majority of allegations of police misconduct are allegations of ____ and they are invariably dealt with by immediate supervisor level

Answer 18

ineptitude

Question 19

3 main types of review systems

Answer 19

1. Internal Affairs
2. Civilain Review Boards
3. Hybrid Systems

Question 20

Today, there are approx ____civilian review boards or hybrid review systems that investigate citizen complaints.

Answer 20

70

Question 21

hybrid systems- One such system operates as the office of citizens complaints (OCC) in

Answer 21

Kansas City, Missouri

Question 22

Citizens take the complaint. IA investigates, OCC monitors. Officer guilt or innocence is determined by director of OCC. Director then advises the chief of police about this decision

Answer 22

Hybrid system

Question 23

This systems tends to find officers guilty of misconduct slightly more often than does civilian review

Answer 23

IA

Question 24

Extensive research reported in Perez’s 1994 book Common Sense Police Review, had some surprising findings.

Answer 24

1. Civilian review boards are less prone to find police guilty of misconduct than IA
2. While officers who have no experience with civilian review are almost universally against it.—those officers who do have experience with civilian review are not against it.
3. minority officers- whether or not they have experience with civilian review- tend to support the ideas of civilian review by a wide margin

Question 25

Toronto Canada, the optimum hearing board

Answer 25

includes the perspectives of the citizenry, legal profession and police.

Question 26

civilian review boards

Answer 26

police review systems that are operated entirely by non-police civilians

Question 27

duck hunting ponds

Answer 27

locations where police can write tickets easily due to number of speeding motorists

Question 28

facilitators

Answer 28

role that middle manangers play in todays police world of COP

Question 29

FTO

Answer 29

experienced training officers

Question 30

hybrid review systems

Answer 30

police review systems made up partly of civilians and partly of sworn officer, such as the OCC in kansas city, missouri

Question 31

integrity

Answer 31

concept involved in evaluating police review systems having to do with the openness of the process, its investigatory thoroughness and objectivity of it outcomes

Question 32

learning

Answer 32

concept involved in evaluating police review systems having to do whether or not the system generates change inerrant police behavior

Question 33

legitimacy

Answer 33

concept involved in evaluating police review systems having to do with how integrity of the systems is perceived externally

Question 34

middle manager

Answer 34

police supervisor between sergeant and upper level management; usually a lieutenant or captain

Question 35

no-fault discipline

Answer 35

system that sanctions errant behavior using positive counseling and training

Question 36

police officer review boards

Answer 36

internal boards used by police dept to review the use of firearms and /or force

Question 37

Wickersham Commission

Answer 37

first major commission looking into the operations of the American criminal justice system and the police in particular; met in 1932