CJ 230 Module Five Practice Activity Template (1)
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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
While on duty, I noticed a car with a man occupant unable to maintain its lane. The person in the car smells like booze and is slurring his speech. This person is a state patrol officer who is not on duty.
The occupant of the vehicle is a well-known and popular colleague throughout the department. My spouse and I have engaged in several social activities with him and his wife as well.
It is my duty as an on-duty
state patrol officer to maintain the safety of the
roads and to enforce the law. The male state patrol
officer who is not on duty has an obligation to uphold his officer-like conduct both on and off The most immediate moral/ethical dilemma that arises is whether to arrest my colleague. Additionally, this cop tries
to intimidate me, the on-
duty officer, into letting him leave by using his Even if this man is an off-
duty state patrol officer, he is still required to follow the law and hold it to a higher standard than law enforcement. I would ask the driver to exit his car and rehearse the common field sobriety
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 clock.
position.
test. The motorist would have to leave his car for the night and have someone pick him up from the location where he was pulled over.
Objective Summary:
A state patrol officer on duty noticed a guy passenger inside a car that was drifting out of his lane. The male driver was identified by the police as
a departmental buddy after he had stopped the car over. Within the department, this state patrol officer who is not on duty is highly regarded. Outside of work, the two policemen and their spouses have developed a bond. When the driver rolls his window down, the officer can smell the stench of alcohol on his breath and his slurred speech. He acknowledged that he had just left a retirement party for a police chief when questioned if he had been drinking. In an attempt to leave the traffic stop, the off-duty police are willing to have his wife pick him up and leave the car there. Then, using the argument that law enforcement personnel should assist one another, he attempts to exert pressure on the officer.
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