Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing by Edwin J. Delattre

By Edwin J. Delattre

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4 CHARACTER AND COPS Chapter 15 addresses the dangerous, and false, assertion that police departments are mere microcosms of society. That mistake has undermined proper recruitment and education of police and impaired high standards in policing. Chapter 16 treats juvenile crime, gang recruitment, and gang predation as serious threats to public safety requiring the combined efforts of police and criminal justice officials; civic and youth organizations; the media, corporations, and foundations; parents and personnel from religious, medical, and educational institutions.

The two functions require common skills, but they require distinct and separate skills as well. Furthermore, law enforcement frequently involves legal and institutional guidelines more rigorous than do police duties in peacekeeping and other social services. ” Although he believed that this remained the primary duty of the police, he insisted that police departments are also called upon to perform every conceivable kind of service. No federal or state law or city ordinance is passed which does not call for the attention of some police organization.

Every human life is the life of a person; for this reason, all life is personal life. Personal life has both public and private dimensions, but these dimensions are parts of a single person. Don L. Kooken, who served as captain of the Indiana State Police and chairman of the Department of Police Administration at Indiana University, stressed this point: “Habits that are formed in the home and among working associates are reflected in a policeman’s relations with the public. . ”15 But integrity is not achieved just by being any one thing through and through.

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