Categorical Imperative

The article also discusses the challenges of attracting and recruiting police officers. Many police departments pay higher than the state police department, which tends to draw the police officers’ attention. Currently state police departments have to decide how to attract police

Underfunding is the greatest Challenge that is faced by the Canadian Criminal Justice System. This paper will discuss the Police Forces aging population and the challenges to replace them when they retire, it will also look at the insufficient quantity of officers needed to investigate all crime. The underfunding of the legal aid program and the effects on the courts and family law will be discussed. Finally the effects of long-term underfunding of the countries prison system and its effects on the most vulnerable inmates will also be measured.

Working as the budget director for the mayor of the city of Kelsey, we have recently been getting numerous complaints from the citizens about an increase in crime and also an issue of the public demanding for more police officers. With the population of the city growing daily, the increase of crime is continuing to progress as well. The mayor has informed us that this past year is the highest increase in crime in the city’s history, that the federal government has reduced the federal pass-through money for the state and that the budgeting group needs to revamp the budget for the coming year. Within this document as the

The continued decline is a result of the Canadian state’s political ambition for First Nation assimilation. (The police institutions are not at fault since they have a obligation to enforce and protect the Canadian state.)

government is not the only government that has power; provincial governments have a role in

As the above pie chart (Composition of government expenditure on criminal justice 2006-2007) shows us the police services are at the head position of the overall expenditure of the three arms of the criminal justice system. The government is aware of the vast need for more funds into the policing sector, for the fact this arm is the division that provides the law and order and is out there addressing the issues that are affecting society and apprehending the criminals in, to ensure the criminal justice system continues to function in a fair and equally sufficing way.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the creation of the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan and to argue that it is a necessary and potentially effective way to ensure that workers in the private sector in Ontario will be able to retire and live comfortably. This conclusion is not made lightly as it is import to view any broadening of government influence through the most critical of lenses. However, there is an increasing need for Ontarians to save for retirement and it is becoming more and more apparent that private pension plans will not be able to meet the needs of most people. This is because too few people have private pensions and the once that do exist sit on volatile ground.

Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative is a theory that basically relays the same message that most mothers teach their kids, and that is to do the right thing. The categorical imperative could be easily explained by the Golden Rule about treating others as you would like to be treated. Kant dives a little deep with his theory, however, and breaks the categorical imperative into three formulations. The first formulation is about essentially removing yourself from a situation and doing what is best for everyone. Kant is basically saying that it is unethical to make decisions that affect everyone, but only benefits you. The second formulation is about making sure that

The major problem with the Toronto Police’s budget cuts are that they plan to freeze hiring for three years. This has caused major burnout rates and a reduction in moral in many officers (Fox, 2017). The plan initiated by the Toronto Police this January is one looking at a change to police culture as well as budget reduction. The hiring freeze is a product of the budget, the Toronto Police Service has hit the 1 billion mark as of this year, exceeding any budget ever had in the past (Powell, 2016). The Toronto police have made it their goal to not go over this cap and are doing everything in their power to cut costs. One of the ways they plan on doing this is through a 3-year hiring freeze of all civilian and new cadets (Lee-Shanok,

Local forces should operate with transparency and work on a foundation of equity and equality, to ensure all demographics are safe and protected, without bias or discrimination. Unfortunately, there have been many incidents in Canada, where police forces denied the issue and showed racism in their operations. Culhane (2003) claimed that in East Vancouver alone, a minimum of 61 women has been reported missing since 1983. When these reports were made to the local police, they were ignored and not taken seriously which contradicts the duties that the police service should provide. Attention was not brought to these reports until the Philip Owens, Vancouver mayor, ordered the police to investigate these concerns (Culhane 2003). After the local forces took control and started investigating, this issue started getting more and more coverage in academics, and media, convicts were finally being arrested for their wrongdoing. While this action did not solve the problem, it was successful in initiating a conversation that was not previously had, which was a significant movement for acknowledging the crisis. This shows how progress can be made with smaller centralized action, however, it also demonstrates the importance that superior governing forces play, the ideal solution would be for the federal government to prompt and encourage local forces to foster this issue within

The categorical imperative suggests that a course of action must be followed because of its rightness and necessity. The course of action taken can also be reasoned by its ability to be seen as a universal law. Universal laws have been deemed as unconditional commands that are binding to everyone at all times. Kant

The article “Provincial-Municipal Relations in Ontario: Approaching an Inflection Point” discusses how the relationship between provincial and municipal government in Ontario needs to adapt to changing circumstances as time goes on. In order for the relationship to adapt there needs to be more communication on what both levels of government roles and responsibilities are in order to better serve the province as partners. One of the strengths of this article is that it is broken up into sections to discuss different aspects of the provincial-municipal relationship and how both levels of government can communicate to better understand their roles. The article also discusses financial issues and how the strengthening of the provincial-municipal relationship can help combat the financial concerns on the horizon, such as the municipal infrastructure deficit. A weakness of this article is that although it provides many thoughtful examples of how the Ontario government has been able to strengthen the provincial and municipal relationship in the past, it needs to focus more on the solution as opposed to the examples. The past examples should be only to support the articles argument as opposed to being the argument itself.

The first formulation of the categorical imperative is “act only in a way the maxim of which can be consistently willed as a universal law of nature.” This formulation in principle has as its supreme law, “always act according to that maxim whose universality as a law you can at the same time will” and is the only condition under which a will can ever

The universal law formula of the categorical imperative ("the CI") is an unconditional moral law stating that one should “act only on that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” A maxim is the motivating principle or reason for one’s actions. A moral act is an act by which its maxim can become universal law that would apply to all rational creatures. As a universal law, all rational creatures must act according to this maxim. The CI requires one to imagine a world where the maxim one wishes to act by becomes a universal law, in which all people must act according to this maxim. If one wills this maxim to become universal law that all rational creatures must follow, but there is a

Immanuel Kant concerns himself with deontology, and as a deontologist, he believes that the rightness of an action depends in part on things other than the goodness of its consequences, and so, actions should be judged based on an intrinsic moral law that says whether the action is right or wrong – period. Kant introduced the Categorical Imperative which is the central philosophy of his theory of morality, and an understandable approach to this moral law. It is divided into three formulations. The first formulation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative states that one should “always act in such a way that the maxim of your action can be willed as a universal law of humanity”; an act is either right or wrong based on its ability to be