Ethics
The set of characteristics that motivate and enable you to act.
What is character?
The taking of money or property while performing their duties.
What is "theft" or "burglary"?
Police officers who participate in more passive type of police corruption by accepting opportunities of corruption that present themselves.
What are "grass eaters"
An irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics
What is "prejudice"?
When an officer uses more force than is necessary to counter a subject’s resistance.
What is "excessive force"?
The study of what constitutes good or bad conduct
What is "ethics"?
Payment or money or other contribution to a police officer with the intent to subvert the aim of the criminal justice system.
What is a "bribe"?
Items of value received by someone because of his or her role or job rather than because of a personal relationship.
What are "gratuities"?
a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgment
What is "bias"?
Regulatory agencies established to increase law enforcement accountability, transparency, and public trust.
What are "Police Commissions"?
A problem in the decision-making process between two possible options, neither of which is absolutely acceptable from an ethical perspective.
What is an "ethical dilemma"?
Officers pay members of their department for special assignments or promotions.
What is "internal corruption"?
Officers who participate in a more aggressive type of corruption by seeking out and taking advantage of opportunities of corruption.
What are "meat-eaters"?
The tendency to process information based on unconscious associations and feelings, even when these are contrary to one’s conscious or declared beliefs.
What is "implicit bias" or "unconscious bias"?
Attacking corruption in response to complaints or specific incidents
What is a "reactive investigation"?
When people begin to deviate, they do it in small ways, but once they have deviated, they begin to slide down a slope that leads to greater and more pronounced types of deviance.
What is a "slippery slope"?
A significant disparity between the level of compliance by the citizen and the level of police force used.
What is "police brutality"?
Drug-related misconduct, sleeping on duty, police deception, and domestic violence are all examples of . . .
What is "deviance"? (or "police deviance")
The use of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, economic status, background, age, socio-economic status, or culture as the sole basis for police activity.
What is "bias-based policing" or "racial profiling"?
For example, leaving "valuable property" at a scene to monitor compliance with procedures.
What is a "proactive investigation"?
A general distrust of others' motives, assuming people are driven solely by selfishness, greed, or dishonesty.
What is "cynicism"?
Situations where a police officer bends the rules to attain the “right” result.
What is "noble cause corruption"?
Name one possible effect of police corruption.
Possible answers:
Gives a “black-eye” to officers who have never, and would never, consider any type of misconduct, as well as to agencies with similar standards.
Citizens won’t help the police if they don’t trust the police.
Morale within the department will suffer as the officers may feel they are “painted with the same wide brush.”
Can result in an organization writing a policy or implementing training that might have prevented this particular incident from occurring but is not a realistic policy or training session or needed for most of the personnel.
Give one example of bias being helpful and one example of bias being harmful.
Answers will vary
Possible for helpful - anything where prior knowledge can help someone avoid harm (like not stepping in front of a moving car, or touching a hot object)
Possible for harmful - negatively judging someone based on their social/economic/racial group
The process by which the actions of the police (arrests, search/seizure, interrogation) are reviewed by the U.S. court system to ensure constitutionality.
What is "Judicial Review"?