UNIT 4 SEMINAR

HOUSEKEEPING

Unit 5—no seminarUnit 4 Essay due date & Late assignment policy

UNIT 4 ESSAYS

Due date: March 1 Read Announcement—Forbidden Websites Two Questions—Total 100 points (10% of

grade) Follow Instructions Avoid Plagiarism APA format Late Assignment Policy

It’s never too early to start Read the instructions Three Scenarios/Four questions per

Scenario—answer all the questions May use references to support your position Page length: 2-4 pages 80 points (8% of your grade) Due Date: March 15

SCENARIO ANALYSIS ESSAY

Idealism & Realism

Realism—Awareness of facts, sensibility to potential danger, and knowledge of how to safeguard your partner

Idealism—loyalty, exhibits personal responsibility, and courage

Officers and command personnel must possess both qualities

Role of Habit in formingGood Character

Good Character = Good Habits formed over time

Support from parents, family, and other role models

Repeated actions can teach people the right and wrong way to behave

How can police departments develop good habits?

Training and instruction Emphasis on courage, justice, temperance,

and compassion Simulated real-life drills Lectures from experienced officers Role of Field Training Officers (FTO’s)

Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird said,

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

How does this quote apply to police work?

Role of Informants in Police Investigations

Use of informants has been approved by the courts and legislatures

Officer has a duty to keep the informant’s identity secret unless he is “transactional”

Informants can present moral dilemmas for the officer

Keep the informant at arms-length

Hypothetical No. 1

Six month undercover narcotics operation UC/PO is with the high-level drug dealers

going to the location where the final large drug transaction is to take place with the arrest to follow. Surveillance officer are there

UC/PO sees a store owner being pistol-whipped and robbed by two men

What should the UC/PO do?

Hypothetical No. 2

Detectives arrest a gang leader for a drive-by shooting where an innocent 12 yr. old victim was killed

After advising the suspect of his Miranda warnings, the detectives question him

During the course of the interrogation, the detectives tell the suspects that they recovered the gun and the suspect’s fingerprints are on the gun. This is not true. The suspect confesses

Can the detectives lie to a suspect in order to obtain a statement?

Police techniques in obtaining confessions

5th Amendment permits police to lie to a suspect

Physical coercion will always render a confession inadmissible

Totality of the circumstances test