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Nicholas Barracato Southern New Hampshire University CJ 230: Discretion in Criminal Justice Professor Benjamin Parks October 1 st , 2023 CJ 230 Module Five Practice Activity Template Objective Summary of Decision-Making Process Complete the table below by replacing the bracketed text with the relevant information. Scenario: You are a state patrol officer, on duty, who has observed a car unable to stay in its lane. When you pull the car over, you realize that the driver is also a state patrol officer who you know well and whose wife has a friendship with your wife. You have engaged in several social activities with him in the past. He is a very popular and likeable colleague in the department. As you engage with him after pulling him over, you notice that there is a strong scent of alcohol on his breath and that he is slurring his speech. When asked if he had something to drink, he says that he has just come from the retirement party of a popular police chief. He adds that he would be willing to park his car and have his wife pick him up if you could let this error slide, and states, “Law enforcement officers need to support each other.” As a patrol officer, you also have an obligation to enforce traffic laws and maintain public safety. Step 1: Identify the facts Step 2: Identify relevant values and concepts Step 3: Identify all possible moral dilemmas for each party involved Step 4: Decide what is the most immediate moral or ethical issue facing the individual Step 5: Resolve the ethical or moral dilemma by using an ethical system or some other means of decision making While on patrol I witnessed a vehicle swerving lanes while The off-duty patrol officer is a well-liked by co- workers and by the As stated, “As a patrol officer, you also have an obligation to enforce The decision is whether or not to ticket the off-duty officer, whether or not to The traffic stop should go business as usual and perform the typical field

Step 1: Identify the facts Step 2: Identify relevant values and concepts Step 3: Identify all possible moral dilemmas for each party involved Step 4: Decide what is the most immediate moral or ethical issue facing the individual Step 5: Resolve the ethical or moral dilemma by using an ethical system or some other means of decision making driving. Once the individual was stopped, I noticed that the driver was an off-duty state patrol officer. The off-duty state patrol officer was slurring his speech, the vehicle and individual smelled of alcohol, and reported he was driving home from a retirement party of a popular police chief. department. I also have a personal relationship with him and our wives are close friends. traffic laws and maintain public safety” and cannot take the off-duty officer’s comments of “law enforcement officers need to support each other” into consideration. As an on-duty officer, I have a responsibility to treat all individuals equally and as an off-duty officer, he has a responsibility to uphold the standards of an officer on and off the job. respond to the officer’s attempt to get me to let him go and “support each other” as law enforcement officers. And whether or not to use discretion on how the remainder of the traffic stop goes especially in relation to towing the car or letting his wife come get the vehicle after the off-duty officer is ticketed. sobriety test/offer a breathalyzer test. If the off-duty officer passes the field sobriety test then the traffic stop could be concluded with a possible warning or a ticket for the swerving. If the off-duty officer fails the field sobriety test and/or fails the breathalyzer then I would be obligated to cite him for DUI/OVI. I am required to write a ticket and the only compromise/discretion I could use is whether or not I will allow the off- duty officers wife to come and pick up the car instead of having the vehicle towed. Once at the station I would allow the off-duty officer to not be held in a holding cell

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