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discretion
- freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation.individual choice or judgment.
- (the authority to make a decision between two or more choices)
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duty-
- a required behavior or action.
- (may involve situations in which the officers knows that the job requires a particular action but feels that action is either inconvenient or a waste of time)
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honesty-
- telling the truth.
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honesty versus the need to effect an arrest and bribery)
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loyalty-
- officers must decide what to do when faced with the wrong doing of other police officers.
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gratuities-
- type of fee-for-service for public functions.
- (gratuities create a public perception that police are corrupt)
- something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service.
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ethical dilemmas-
- situations in which it is difficult to make a decision either because the right course of action is unclear or the right course of action carries some negative consequences.
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utilitarianism-
- concerned with the relative costs and benefits of arrest versus some other intervention.
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