REFLECTIVE JOURNAL TWO - ETHICS OF MEANS AND ENDS - CRIMINAL JUSTICE 220

Ethics of Means and Ends
Chief of the Police
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Ethics of Means and Ends
Chief of the Police
Strayer University
Felicia McCaw
Professor Judy Tompkins
CRJ 220
Online Summer 2016
September 2, 2016

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The ethical approach that I would use and apply as the Chief of Police is the enacting of consequentialism awareness. The ability to judge a situation that would require the process of whether the means would be a prevalent to satisfy a desired end. As a facilitator to ensuing equal and fair justice is administered the correct determinate would have to be viewed with objectivity and a neutrality position that would ensure that utilitarianism is an effective weapon in itself.

Further because I am an adamant person who looks at the overall populace as a good I would initiate training and empathetic classes that help people deal with situational unrest, emotional upheaval and structured correctness. Consequently, the Criminal Justice field becomes not a battle ground against criminality but a haven for corrective and innovative techniques to prevent acts of crime by substituting the desire for pursuing acts of criminality with acts of good that would justify and equate to a means and ends.

Furthermore, effective policing is not a matter of crime, lock up, reinitializing of a convicted offender back into society, it becomes a necessary element to use the ends to translate successful rehabilitation to proposed role model behavior and correct adherence back to social legalities, criminal legalities and a society with a prevalence and desire that abhors criminal acts with the eye on security for all.