Description: Focus on the following questions in your interviews:
1.Why are ethics and character so important in the field of law enforcement?
2.Do the interviewees feel that police are more ethical today, or were they more ethical ten years
ago?
3.Why do police officers become involved in misconduct?
4.Do the interviewees feel that there is enough training offered in ethics at the police academy
level? If not, why is that?
5.Should ethics training be offered as an on-going process for law enforcement officers?
6.Do the interviewees feel that education and/or training in ethics would reduce incidents of police
corruption?
Report the results of these interviews in a paper that answer the proposed questions. Apply
information that has been read and discussed in class on various ethical issues to your paper to form
a synthesis of practical law enforcement ideologies. Be sure to discuss with the interviewees at least
four contemporary ethical issues that they are dealing with as criminal justice practitioners. Finally,
offer insights on the perspectives of the individuals interviewed and materials covered in the text
readings and Seminar discussions.
Study Books Used in Class:
Delattre, E.J. (2011). Character and cops: Ethics in policing (6th ed.). Washington, DC: AEI Press.
ISBN: 978-0-8447-7225-7