CJ 230 Module Five Practice Activity
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CJ 230 Module Five Practice Activity Template
Objective Summary of Decision-Making Process
Complete the table below by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information.
Scenario:
You are a state patrol officer, on duty, who has observed a car unable to stay in its lane. When you pull the car over, you realize that the driver is also a state patrol officer who you know well and whose wife has a friendship with your wife. You have engaged in several social activities with him in the past. He is a very popular and likeable colleague in the department.
As you engage with him after pulling him over, you notice that there is a strong scent of alcohol on his breath and that he is slurring his speech. When asked if he had something to drink, he says that he has just come from the retirement party of a popular police chief. He adds that he would be willing to park his car and have his wife pick him up if you could let this error slide, and states, “Law enforcement officers need to support each other.” As a patrol officer, you also have an obligation to enforce traffic laws and maintain public safety.
Step 1: Identify the facts
Step 2: Identify relevant
values and concepts
Step 3: Identify all
possible moral dilemmas
for each party involved
Step 4: Decide what is
the most immediate
moral or ethical issue
facing the individual
Step 5: Resolve the
ethical or moral dilemma
by using an ethical
system or some other
means of decision
making
The car is unable to stay in the lane. The driver of the car is a fellow state officer who is well known.
The driver’s breath has a strong scent of alcohol, and has slurred speech. The driver comes from a retirement party, which Police officers have a duty
to enhance public safety. Law officers have a duty to implement traffic laws. Officers should apply integrity and professionalism while on duty. There is a need to build trust in law Patrol Officer Dilemma
Dilemma: enforce the law or be loyal to his colleague.
Dilemma: to uphold integrity and professionalism or to cover up the mistakes of The patrol officer dilemma: enforce the law for public safety or be loyal to his colleague and let him go.
The patrol officer can use ethical formalism theory to solve the dilemma. The
theory holds that logical forms determine moral judgments, that is, the rightness or wrongness of actions and not their consequences (
Pollock,
Step 1: Identify the facts
Step 2: Identify relevant
values and concepts
Step 3: Identify all
possible moral dilemmas
for each party involved
Step 4: Decide what is
the most immediate
moral or ethical issue
facing the individual
Step 5: Resolve the
ethical or moral dilemma
by using an ethical
system or some other
means of decision
making
suggests he has been taking alcohol. The driver is willing to pack the car and have his wife drive him home.
enforcement. The value of friendship among colleagues.
his colleague.
Pulled over Officer Dilemma
Dilemma: to own up to his mistakes or seek special treatment from the officer on patrol.
The other dilemma is whether to maintain professionalism as a law enforcement officer or avoid legal action.
2018). In the case at hand, the officer should uphold his duty of protecting the public and enforcing the law. He can have the colleague take the sobriety test and hold him responsible for breaking the law by taking
legal action against him even though he is his friend and colleague.
Objective Summary:
A patrol officer notes a car that cannot stay in its lane. Upon pulling it over, he realized it was his colleague. The pulled-over officer smells alcohol
and has a slurred speech. He admits he has been to another police officer's retirement party, which suggests he has been drinking. The officer points out that he can have his wife drive him home if the patrolling officer lets his error slide. The patrolling officer is in a dilemma: uphold traffic laws and enhance public safety, or let the police officer go based on their loyal friendship.
Reference
Pollock, J. M. (2018).
Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal
. Cengage Learning.
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