CJ 230 Module Five-One assignment

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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 As a state patrol officer who is on duty, I observed a vehicle that is unable to stay within the lane. Once I can pull the car over, I noticed that the driver was a fellow state patrol officer who is a friend. After engaging with the The relevant values and concepts that were in this scenario would be that the driver is a well- known, popular and liked patrol officer within our state patrol department. Since the fellow officer and I know each within Since I am a state patrol officer who was on duty when this incident occurred, I had the legal obligation to enforce the law regardless of who the person is and what type of relationship I have with them. If the law is broken, The moral and ethical issues that I would immediately face for the scenario is the drunk individual who I have a working relationship with and deciding if I should follow protocol which is arresting the driver while How I would resolve this dilemma would be to follow protocol and enforce the traffic law. I would have the fellow officer do a sobriety test and if he failed then I would write a ticket for the fellow officer since he

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 fellow officer after pulling him over I could smell the strong scent of alcohol coming off his breathe when he would talk and could hear the slurring of words. the department and outside of the department because our significant others have a decent relationship between themselves as well. then the violator needs to face the punishment for the crime. he is intoxicated, or I should let him off with a warning and letting him park his car and allowing his wife to come pick him up. violated the traffic law and then I would arrest him for driving while he is very intoxicated to the point where he is slurring his speech when he tries to talk. Objective Summary: An officer who works for the state patrol department notices a vehicle that is unable to stay in its lane. The officer proceeds to pull the vehicle over and when the officer reaches the window to talk to the driver; he realizes that the driver is not only a popular well-liked fellow police officer but also a friend outside of the department. While talking to the off-duty officer; the on-duty officer could smell the strong scent of alcohol coming from the driver and noticing the slurring when he would talk. The driver tried to explain that he was driving home from the retirement party from a popular police chief and that he would be willing to park his car and have his wife come pick him up. As a state patrol officer who follows the traffic laws I decide to do a field sobriety test to the fellow police officer to prove that he was intoxicated and after he fails the sobriety test I would write him a ticket for driving him under the influence and then I would arrest him for breaking the law. I could not let him get away with the violation, avoiding the ticket, and also arresting him. References:

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