Police Ethics-Chapter 15, Being a Good Officer

Question 1

“Police work is just common sense. Any good person can become a good police officer.”

Answer 1

Skip Stevens, retired police officer

Question 2

1960, numerous riot commissions at that time reflected upon

Answer 2

how the police handles—or mishandled–both inner city riots and college campus antiwar demonstrations

Question 3

Driven by ______the police of the 60’s were not only disorganized and unprofessional. They were driven by racially focused hatred and an unsophisticated anger focused against middle-class college students who they misunderstood

Answer 3

lower-middle-class white rage

Question 4

who studied how people learn morality

Answer 4

Lawrence Kohlberg

Question 5

Education: the importance of the liberal arts

Answer 5

involves experiencing a curriculum that avails college students of general knowledgte in the fields of literature, language, philosophy, government, history, mathematics and science.

Question 6

two reasons why college experience is important for the competent professional

Answer 6

1. process-oriented

2. substance-oriented

Question 7

sociology

Answer 7

learn about the creation of norms and values, about the dynamics of subcultures, about diverse cultural experiences and expectations and about deviance.

Question 8

political science

Answer 8

learn about American institutions, how change occurs in the law, and the place of the courts, legislatures, and the police in our complicated system of governance.

Question 9

general education

Answer 9

breadth requirements. they expand their general knowledge of people, the world, their own society, other societies and the place of people in both the world and society.

Question 10

Liberal arts

Answer 10

is about obtaining the most broad-based academic experience a person can get

Question 11

Questioning

Answer 11

what the word Liberal refers to

Question 12

reasons for offices to go to college

Answer 12

1. experience interactions with different types of people, points of view, ideas and ideal, and practice questioning ones own perspective
2. learn specific subject matter related directly to police work and related in general to the development of an understanding of culture and American institutions
3. expose officers to perspectives on life other than those found in police subculture

Question 13

Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg following criteria as being necessary for moral growth.

Answer 13

1. Being in situations where seeing things from other points of view is encouraged
2. engaging in logical thinking
3. having responsibility to make moral decisions and to influence one own moral mind
4. being exposed to moral controversy and thus to ambiguity
5. being exposed to the reasoning of an individual whose moral thinking is more sophisticated than one onw
6. particpating in creating and maintaining a just community

Question 14

Muir’s three ways in which professionalism could be nurtured

Answer 14

1. language
2. learning
3. leadership

understanding language is most critical

Question 15

Muir’s other two points deal with a type of learning about competence on the job that is related to the teaching of cops by their sergeants and leadership of the chief

Answer 15

empty

Question 16

To be a competent, professional police officer is to cultivate the moral habits that are necessary to be a _____

Answer 16

good person

Question 17

the glue that holds all of this together is the police officers______

Answer 17

personal ethical perspective

Question 18

the body of knowledge and the ethical perspective are _____________

Answer 18

worthless without each other

Question 19

Review: Our Ethic to Live By

Answer 19

Beneficence- the prima facia obligation to do good
*Always do good/never do harm
*Prevent harm/remove harm
Justice- The obligation to make “equal distribution”
*Equality of substantive treatment
*Equality before the law (equal of opportunity)

Question 20

adolescent psychology

Answer 20

study of the teenaged personality

Question 21

breadth requirements

Answer 21

general education requirements

Question 22

capitalism

Answer 22

merit-based economics system common to most industrialized democracies involving free market competition

Question 23

communism

Answer 23

envisioned by Karl Marx in mid 19th century involving commom ownership of all property and a dictatorship of the proletariat

Question 24

criminal justice studies

Answer 24

fastest growing major in American education, involving the study of crime causation, criminal law, and criminal justice system

Question 25

fascism

Answer 25

a severe and autocratic governmental system that exercises rigid censorship and forcible suppression of its citizenry

Question 26

general education

Answer 26

educational requrements at colleges and universities demanding students take a broad-based set of courses

Question 27

Gettysburg Address

Answer 27

Speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery in Gettyburg, Pennsylvania by President Lincoln, that refocused the American ideal and reinvented the definition of our country

Question 28

liberal arts

Answer 28

field of study involving broad-bsed series of courses aimed at providing students with a far reaching education

Question 29

socialism

Answer 29

economic system involving collective ownership or regulation of major industires,

Question 30

totalitarianism

Answer 30

government involving total control over peoples lives, from their individual liberties to their economic futures.ex former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany

Question 31

white rage

Answer 31

outrage of a significant number of white people in America during 60s when they believed that minorities were obtaining benefits and services without earning them

Question 32

Of Muirs three points, this is the most critical for our discussion because it is most directly in the hands of each individual police officer

Answer 32

understanding language