Administration of Justice 15 – Police Supervision LESSON #3 – Chapter 3 Responsibility Three: Ethics Custom Essay

    Class: Administration of Justice 15 – Police Supervision
    Book: "Supervising Police Personnel: The Fifteen Responsibilities"
    Seventh Edition
    by Paul M. Whisenand,
    PEARSON PUBLISHING
    ISBN 13: 978-0-13-245758-3
    LESSON #3
    Reading assignment: Chapter 3
    Responsibility Three: Ethics
    Key points:

    • Ethics focuses on moral duties and how we should behave

    • Ethos is the distinguishing quality, moral nature, or guiding beliefs we hold

    • The six pillars of character are trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, justice and fairness, caring and civic virtue and citizenship

    • Self-deception and rationalization will cause us difficulty with hard choices

    • Ethics training involves inspiration, collaboration, education, and integration

    • In education and training of ethics, it is best to
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    o Avoid sermonizing
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    o Promote practical problem solving
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    o Help in recognizing ethical issues
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    o Show how to anticipate problems
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    o Emphasize that ethics is its own reward
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    o Concentrate on actions, not motives; and
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    o Accept the fact that humankind is not basically good
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    WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT:

    After reading Chapter 3, please answer the following essay questions.
    You will be graded on the thoroughness of your responses.
    Please rewrite the question first (copy/paste) and then provide an answer.

    1. 1. What does ethos mean to you? Cite a guiding belief that you believe represents your employer?
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    2. Obeying a law is a relatively easy choice. Making ethical decisions is a hard choice. Provide examples of why this is true.
    Answer:
    3. Is our society becoming more or less ethical in its daily transactions. Use examples. What are the major ethical pitfalls we are confronted with?
    Answer:
    4. Complete Structured Exercise 3-7 on page 58.
    Answer:
    5. List all the values in the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics on page 57. Which of these values do you believe are ethics?
    Answer:

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