Police Discretion
If public trust is broken, the criminal justice system may be?
Questioned
What is ethics concerned with in policing?
What is morally right or wrong.
What do many officers not do in response to misconduct?
Malfeasance definition?
Someone who actively participates in corrupt acts.
What are quotas?
Number of fixed citations or stops that officers are required to make.
Why is the law a factor that influences discretion
The law has many gray areas.
What is a grass-eater?
Someone who doesn't directly participate in misconduct but doesn't say anything.
Modern police departments have realized they can use media as a?
What are non-feasances?
Grass-eaters, those who accept the wrongdoing of other officers.
What is a blue wall?
Factors that influence discretion?
Situation, setting, and suspect.
What is ethical conduct?
Doing the right thing in the right way at the right time for the right reasons.
Most police officers perform their duties with these three qualities?
Ethically, professionally, and competently
What is police discretion?
A police officer's exercise of individual choices/judgments concerning a possible course of action.
What do leaders in policing emphasize?
Role modeling.
Why are quotas bad for the public and community?
Quotas can make people feel like policing is a number game and came make officers give out unreasonable tickets.
What can ethics education do for officers?
Assist them by increasing their ethical awareness and moral reasoning.
This type of surveillance, created by widespread cameras in phones, businesses, and government, intensified media coverage of police?
Ambient surveillance.
What are ethics?
The study of right and wrong, duty, responsibility, and personal character.
evaluating police productivity
What are the consequences of police discretion?
Poor morale, civil liability issues, and public mistrust of the police.
What did the Knapp Commission discover?
The New York police officers were engaging in acts of minor corruption, such as accepting gratuities.
Trainers encourage police to adopt this kind of approach to face tough issues?
Proactive attitude.
What is biased enforcement?
Police practice that results from number-based policing.
This federal research organization studied how to promote integrity within the police agencies?
National Institution of Justice (NIJ)