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1
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“Police work is just common sense. Any good person can become a good police officer.”

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Skip Stevens, retired police officer

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1960, numerous riot commissions at that time reflected upon

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how the police handles—or mishandled–both inner city riots and college campus antiwar demonstrations

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Driven by ______the police of the 60’s were not only disorganized and unprofessional. They were driven by racially focused hatred and an unsophisticated anger focused against middle-class college students who they misunderstood

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lower-middle-class white rage

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who studied how people learn morality

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Lawrence Kohlberg

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Education: the importance of the liberal arts

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involves experiencing a curriculum that avails college students of general knowledgte in the fields of literature, language, philosophy, government, history, mathematics and science.

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two reasons why college experience is important for the competent professional

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  1. process-oriented

2. substance-oriented

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sociology

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learn about the creation of norms and values, about the dynamics of subcultures, about diverse cultural experiences and expectations and about deviance.

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political science

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learn about American institutions, how change occurs in the law, and the place of the courts, legislatures, and the police in our complicated system of governance.

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general education

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breadth requirements. they expand their general knowledge of people, the world, their own society, other societies and the place of people in both the world and society.

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Liberal arts

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is about obtaining the most broad-based academic experience a person can get

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Questioning

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what the word Liberal refers to

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reasons for offices to go to college

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  1. experience interactions with different types of people, points of view, ideas and ideal, and practice questioning ones own perspective
  2. learn specific subject matter related directly to police work and related in general to the development of an understanding of culture and American institutions
  3. expose officers to perspectives on life other than those found in police subculture
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Psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg following criteria as being necessary for moral growth.

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  1. Being in situations where seeing things from other points of view is encouraged
  2. engaging in logical thinking
  3. having responsibility to make moral decisions and to influence one own moral mind
  4. being exposed to moral controversy and thus to ambiguity
  5. being exposed to the reasoning of an individual whose moral thinking is more sophisticated than one onw
  6. particpating in creating and maintaining a just community
14
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Muir’s three ways in which professionalism could be nurtured

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  1. language
  2. learning
  3. leadership

understanding language is most critical

15
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Muir’s other two points deal with a type of learning about competence on the job that is related to the teaching of cops by their sergeants and leadership of the chief

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empty

16
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To be a competent, professional police officer is to cultivate the moral habits that are necessary to be a _____

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good person

17
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the glue that holds all of this together is the police officers______

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personal ethical perspective

18
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the body of knowledge and the ethical perspective are _____________

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worthless without each other

19
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Review: Our Ethic to Live By

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Beneficence- the prima facia obligation to do good
*Always do good/never do harm
*Prevent harm/remove harm
Justice- The obligation to make “equal distribution”
*Equality of substantive treatment
*Equality before the law (equal of opportunity)

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adolescent psychology

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study of the teenaged personality

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breadth requirements

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general education requirements

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capitalism

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merit-based economics system common to most industrialized democracies involving free market competition

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communism

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envisioned by Karl Marx in mid 19th century involving commom ownership of all property and a dictatorship of the proletariat

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criminal justice studies

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fastest growing major in American education, involving the study of crime causation, criminal law, and criminal justice system

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fascism

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a severe and autocratic governmental system that exercises rigid censorship and forcible suppression of its citizenry

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general education

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educational requrements at colleges and universities demanding students take a broad-based set of courses

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Gettysburg Address

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Speech delivered at the dedication of the National Cemetery in Gettyburg, Pennsylvania by President Lincoln, that refocused the American ideal and reinvented the definition of our country

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liberal arts

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field of study involving broad-bsed series of courses aimed at providing students with a far reaching education

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socialism

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economic system involving collective ownership or regulation of major industires,

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totalitarianism

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government involving total control over peoples lives, from their individual liberties to their economic futures.ex former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany

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white rage

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outrage of a significant number of white people in America during 60s when they believed that minorities were obtaining benefits and services without earning them

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Of Muirs three points, this is the most critical for our discussion because it is most directly in the hands of each individual police officer

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understanding language