Ethics & Professionalism

The moral actions, conduct, motives, and character of an individual.

• Loss of public trust
• Basis of legal actions against police
• Detrimental to career
• Humiliation/degradation

• Declaration of Independence
• Constitution of the United States

• Reasonably coherent, stable core values
• Principles reflected through actions & speech
• Will do the right thing even when no one else is looking

Mindset or subculture that fosters a belief that the end justifies the means

• Anger
• Lust
• Greed
• Peer Pressure

• Responsibility to self
• Responsibility to family
• Responsibility to community
• Responsibility to professional
• Responsibility to treat everyone professionally
• Never be cynical
• Never use excessive force
• Never accept gratutites
• Never commit perjury

The offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of somthing of value for the purpose of inflencing the action of an official in the discharge of his/her public or legal duties

• Submission to such conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of emmployment
• Submission to or regjection of such conduct is used as the basis for employment decisions
• Such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonably interfering with an indiviudal's work performance or creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working environment

• Hiring
• Promotion
• Reinstatement
• Back pay
• Compensation

• Quid pro quo - "this for that"
• Hostile environment

To identify expected behavior

• Sets standards of behavior
• Usually adopted by practitioners or an occupation/profession

A practical, effective way of policing that helps law enforcement and community partners work together to identify crime and its related problems, then develop ways to resolve and prevent crime and disorder from occuring

• Change
• Commitment
• Enforcement
• Futuristic
• Grass Roots
• Personalized
• Philosophy
• Proactive
• Special Needs
• Trust

• Partnerships
• Empowerment
• Problem Solving

• Scanning
• Analysis
• Response
• Assessment

• Neighborhood watch programs
• Citizen police academies

Any act or omission done in violation of the law

• Less serious crime
• Generally punishable by less than 6 months in a county jail or local detention center

• Actus Reus - "Guilty Act"
• Harm
• Causation
• Mens Rea - "Guilty Mind"
• Concurrence - guilty mind and guilty act at the same time

• Purposely
• Knowingly
• Recklessly
• Negligently

With heedless indefference of consequences and disregarding own risk tht conduct will cause a certain result

• Substantial lapse from due care
• Fail to perceive or avoid a risk that the conduct will cause a certain result

A governement's central power to exercise authority over all persons and things within its territory

The particular county or geographical area in which a court with jurisdiction may hear and determine a case, and in the territory of which the offense or anhy element of the offense was commited

The duty of proving facts disputed during trial

The body of law derived from statutes rather than from constitution or judicial decisions

The law found in the collecgtion of reported cases that form all or part of the body of law within a given jurisdiction

Any violation, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any means on or against a person or thing

Any force which carries a substantial risk that it will proximately result in the death of any person

Any injury, illness, or other physiological impairment, regardless of its gravity or duration

Any tangible or intangible damage to property that, in any degree, results in loss to its value or interferes with its use or enjoyment

• Any mental illness or condition of such gravity as would normally require hospitalization or prolonged psychiatric treatment
• Any physical harm that carries a substantial risk of death
• Any physical harm that involves some permanent incapacity, whether partial or total, or that involves some temporary, substantial incapacity
• Any physical harm that involves some permanent disfigurement or that involves some temporary, serious disfigurement
• Any physical harm that involves acute pain of such duration as to result in substantial suffering or that involves any degree of prolonged or intractable pain

• Any physical harm to property that either:
• - results in the substantial loss to the value of the property or requires a substantial amount of effort or money to repair or replace
• - temporarily prevents the use or enjoyment of the property or substantially interferes with its use or enjoyment for an extended period of time