NATURE OF GOD - RELIGION 212 - FINAL CULMINATION OF CHARTING - PAPER

To: President Obama and family and all believers and non-believers in God.

I would like to dedicate all my time that I put into this class to my dear mother (Mary Alice Barnett who recently passed) and my dear father (Major Waddell Barnett who passed away too long ago) and grandmother (Lucille Miller who went back to school in an age of fall) and got her degree in college and my dearest aunt (Daisy Jackson who was like a second mother to me) and lastly Mr. Nute Scott a dear family friend who taught me some of the aspects of the world and true reality. These beautiful people in my life helped forge me, encourage me and made me dream and live this great American Dream. I won't stop. I encourage all young people to step up and defend your stance because the torch of America the Dream is yours and the nation will be defended to keep you strong, united to defend self and home. I love you people for saving me and mine. Thank you.

Felicia


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Nature of God
Strayer University
Felicia McCaw
Professor Eugene E. Muhammad
REL 212
Online Summer 2016
September 9, 2016

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One of life’s intriguing enigmas is God as a perfect omnipotent being who stands for mercy and justice and the love of all. In service of God as a complement is the practice of religion that facilitates as a belief system, behavior and societal view that guides and directs the thoughts and actions of either an individual or group of people in worship.

The Nature of God is what is one of the most inspiring motivators in taking up the cross and fighting alongside our God because he is the Almighty whose will is sweet and his merciful dominion is like a paradise for his love and kindness is sweet and his wrath is exulting and majestic in his dealing with those of iniquity.

What is compelling about the Nature of God is the similarities between the different religions, worship, practices of humbling oneself so that God can move into your life to love, support, protect and guide his servants to safer passage and a land of his decision. Also, I found it awesome that all trust in a divine heavenly entity that is unseen and any victory is his victory and his grace to you when he fights the battle.

As such religions of many help explain the concept of God’s Nature and his heavenly will for his people to follow his laws and live the true life that he has promised. For example, the statement “if you abide in me…” signifies that God will take care of any person that believes on his name and claim it as true. The servant that parlays God’s word and will to save the people from sin as well as from the Day of Death will be granted eternity.

This Day is the proclaiming of judgment for our sins whether the philosophical approach or thought includes reincarnation or a day when one dies and the sins determine the exclusion of the soul from eternal paradise. As a parallestic view reflects that a corresponding theme is

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prevalent throughout all religions and the truly remarkable and wonderful aspects of a God who loves and cherish his servants and teaches them the path of correction, humility, harmony and happiness to have his favor.

In the first religion (Hinduism) studied this religion portrays the Nature of God as monotheistic as well as polytheistic. Because it is diverse it allows religious worship to encompass many approaches that are affective to the three major groupings of deities (Shaktas, Shaivites, Vaishnavites) with emphasis on one Supreme God.

The second religion (Jainism) view of the nature of God or Creator portrays belief that he exists but does not emphasize that one is totally accountable to a deity. Further being accountable to God happens only when something upsets the state of a happy long life and levels of virtue become compromised.

The third religion (Buddhism) reflects the belief that there is no personal God who created the world or whom we can submit our prayers to but supports the thought that it is nontheistic. Further that there is no rebirth (no eternal, independent soul to be reborn) through God.

The fourth religion (Daoism) reference is given to an Almighty Creator who is innate and called the unnamable and eternally real. As such the teaching and religious practice is based upon and deferred to as a higher entity.

The fifth religion (Confucianism) viewpoint is toward the Nature of God which is equated to Heaven because he is all and empowers his righteous ones. God allows a direct connection to the goodness of human nature with the nature of Heaven.

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The sixth religion (Shinto) gives indication by its interpretation of name that a higher entity exists reflecting a divine being and way. As such this allows a hierarchy and claim that God exists. Further that he is spirit whether looked at in an indicative manner of a singular or plural interpretation of a single essence that exists and is manifested in many places. That God is an unknown quality existing above, below, evoking belief, wonder and awe.

The seven religion (Zoroastrianism) recognizes Ahura Mazda, the Creator God as the heavenly entity surrounded by six angelic presences. It is monotheistic but associative with the forces of nature with God known as the Wise Lord from which all good comes from.

The eighth religion (Judaism) portrays God as a transcendent creator who has no origin, gender or form. Also called “Yahweh” for the supreme deity who is a fair God but stern with punishment for misdoing. That he allows a second chance because he is Ehyeh (I Am) the Holy One.

The ninth religion (Christianity) refers to God as Abba the Protector and Provider. That the Holy Spirit is a manifestation of God who sent his son (Jesus) to save us and die for our sins. Further that he is amongst the poor and the rich and that all that is good is He and his Kingdom. To return good and love for evil and pray for those who misuse you, betray you and lie upon thine name.

The tenth religion (Islam) reflects that a benevolent God sent a prophet (Muhammad) to teach his will and save the people from their sins. Also, that there is no god but God and Muhammad is the Messenger. Prior to the Islam faith many deities were worshiped until God sent Muhammad with his way and will.

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The tenth religion (Sikhism) refers to God as the Almighty who is merciful, giving, the Doer and whose will is sweet. Further that he is like sugar scattered in the sand and is the same One for all and shall protect you himself. The He, his Name is Truth and is a being of purity, immortality and destroyer of all pride and evil.

The eleventh religion (New Religions) covers several religions with the concept of a God that is Almighty and who has been grieving since the fall of his children. Also, that God is a trinity who will not let the earth die and will unite all of humanity for He is the One who brings light into darkness.

The significance of Nature of God is a recognizable pattern of sameness, originality and truth. It is truth because these writings were done in differing regions of the world where the context of speech (verbal or written) had no parallel to intermix, integrate or converge. Further as a reflection of faith it supports the practice of religion or religious practices for it is food and drink for those who hunger and thirst for God’s will, word, love and care.

In my life, I was taught the way of love of my Father God by my mother and father for I witnessed his true miracles in my life, my mom’s life, my father’s life, my older brother’s life, my second brother’s life, my third brother’s life, my sister’s life and on and on. Further miracles of change are happening in the city of my birth.

The impact of the Nature of God in the lives of people acts as a supporter that keeps a person on the path of goodness and God. Because if you live only the Ten Commandments this will help destroy the ideas of iniquity and keep you on the path even though we all sin we all fear God and ask for forgiveness and to allow surrender to his will.

REFERENCES

Ungvarsky, J. (2015). Religion. Salem Press Encyclopedia,
Kelly, G. (2016). The Justice and Mercy of God. Australasian Catholic Record, 93(2), 198-208.
Fisher, M. P. (n.d.). Living religions (9th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ:Pearson.

Philosophical and Practical Approach for Balancing Issues - CRIMINAL JUSTICE 220

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Philosophical and Practical Approach
for Balancing Issues
Strayer University
Felicia McCaw
Professor Judy Tompkins
CRJ 220
Online Summer 2016
September 10, 2016


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In my eternal quest for the rights of the people and ethical treatment to be fairly represented and distributed the goal is to implement utilitarianism in all forms of correction. This will ensure that there will be no disproportionate harsh or disproportionately lenient penalties.

Summarily, realizing the need to respect human dignity revolves around the end and as such the evolving of thought to conceive that all are rational, logical, responsible human beings. Because of this the respecting of their freedom and rationality by holding them in account for their deeds and designating corrective action to circumvent and prevent further actions as well as prevent emulation.

Moralistic values when merged with law enforcement compels the acknowledgement and moral right of the law to punish offenders and actively enact moral duty. Moral duty is intertwined with the interest of justice and facilitates its purpose to be ethical and principled acts of mercy and justice to ensure that punishment is proportioned with fairness, equated with rational time and retainership of respect.

Individual rights and public protection is immeasurably complicated and has a tremendous amount of intricacies and underlayments of complexity. Therefore, the correct handling of situational racial interaction has come forth as a blatant screaming flag that needs addressing with finesse and delicacy. Desensitization levels have risen as well as personal contempt and tolerance when dealing with people of different races.

As a philosophical and practical avenue for balancing issues would be the acknowledgment and acceptance that there is a problem. Next, would be the admission of all

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internal bias and then effectively analyze with a high ethical approach to change (evolve) thought and action to ensure that a qualitative standard can be met to prevent compromise of self and moral duty.

Ethical choices and decisions will always be based on factual rights, wrongs, ideas of complexity, applications and interpretation. Further because values are intrinsic of cultural behavior this allows ethics to stand as a base as well as a support to alter situations and bring about changes and different approaches in ensuring fairness attributed to the public (protection) as well as establishing their clear individual rights.

As a person of high ethics, it is my responsibility and duty to be an effective means to an end. Further to find a way to protect as well as deflect old perceptions and embrace new perceptions. With the embrace of new perceptions brings forth the code of consequence and actions that prevent unacceptable behavior and embrace radical acceptable behavior. Ethics can only be a tool of assessment and thereby be an impeling tool (force) to use in corrective patterns of disturbance in the populace. Social norms and legalistic norms are imperative to continue and contain within structural society as well as be a fecundity to teaching and standards.

My approach to reward and punishment in the Criminal Justice field is to first acknowledge the need for punishment for acts of criminality, fairness to all includes the victim and the culprit because it impels the necessity to properly analyze and gauge the extent that this act of supposed random criminality has done in the populace.

Each act of criminality is always copycatted or emulated with the expectation of the end result of possible success. As such the realization is that the study of criminality is not just a

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prevalence of doing an act of criminality or sporadic temptation to act as a criminal. It is a pattern of complete deliberate action to usurp the legalistic system and thereby destroy the structural base of social norms that protect society, people and country. Further since the acts of criminality are not sporadic but contemptuously made and done. It is our duty to evaluate and change our entire approach to dealing with these acts to maintain a semblance of safety for even the poorest of people to the rich.

Although the reward and punishment is an equitable thought the structural base of who can have, who can’t have, who should be poor, who can be educated, who can’t be educated is part of the dilemma of discontent and temptation to act, think, feel and evolve to a criminal. When the moral issues of crime is effectively explained and the searing cruel impact has been met, countered and conquered then comes the acknowledgment that for our own safety the good of the legalistic system is working overtime to help but is spiraling downward due to inappropriate action in some scenarios.

Therefore, with the realization that criminality has evolved it is my intent to study the changing face of crime and its new look. Consequently, since it has evolved therefore the approach of practice and balancing issues of threat to the populace has to be countered, checked and hopefully escalated down. The safety of all is primary and the law is secondary always.

Once Sleeping Beauty slept until she became wide awake and realized her danger and this country and others. Further because of this the state of unconscious became indifferent to the prevalency and increase of crime until it has threatened the inner core of stability (founders) and supporters of this country by deliberate escalation of crime to distort the usual pattern.

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Human rights of the impoverish are threatened by criminal neglect in education, safety, concern and care for the underdog.

As a part of those against criminality it is my realization that it is our right to protect the weak, individual liberty and be an instrument to always measure and counter thrust attacks against this nation and ours. The perception of danger is imminent, apparent and we are to foil, protect and discard any immoral acts of lying to gain an end.

Any acts of immorality consistently lower standards and principles to a behavior of the lowest criminal. These criminals become your bedfellow and prevent objectivity, fairness, honesty, equitable fair thought and values. As such the purpose is to withstand from compromising self and becomes duty, honor, pride, care and love. The teaching of such is the highlight of my life. Do not compromise self else we lose all social and legal structure.

Lastly for all law enforcement professionals, the ethics of care acts as a facilitator of justice and its impartiality in applying laws, rules, procedures and principles. Along with care and supported by justice the emotional levels are controlled and channeled through utilitarianism to encourage the acts of application of principles to prevent bias.

Therefore, with the levels of fairness addressed so can the level of peacemaking criminology to assist and support the affective states of ambivalence because emotional levels cannot be controlled. But peacemaking entitles us all to put aside anger and acts as facilitators, correctors of criminal acts and protectors of the populace and this country.

References

Bishop, W.w. (2013). The Role of Ethics in 21st Century Organizations. Journal Of Business Ethics. 118(3), 635-637. doi: 10.1007/s10551-013-1618-1
Kanter, S. (2011). SLEEPING BEAUTY WIDE AWAKE: STATE CONSTITUTIONS AS IMPORTANT INDEPENDENT SOURCES OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. Lewis & Clark Law Review, 15(3), 799-817.
West, R. (2014). HAS THE CONSTITUTION FOSTERED A PATHOLOGICAL RIGHTS CULTURE? THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS: A TALE OF TWO RIGHTS. Boston University Law Review, 94893.
Bahmueller, C. F. (2015). Morality. Salem Press Encyclopedia,
Yeaman, A. J. (2004). Professional Ethics for Technology. Techtrends: Linking Research & Practice to Improve Learning, 48(2), 11-15. doi:10.1007/BF02762537

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

Ethics of Means and Ends
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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.

REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ONE - ETHICS AND INTEGRITY - CRIMINAL JUSTICE 220

Felicia McCaw
CRJS220

Reflective Journal One

Ethics and Integrity

Prior to explaining how each facet (ethics, morality and integrity) will be involved and interwoven in my future position as a teacher of the particular and peculiar quirks in the field of Criminal Justice I will be expounding and detailing about the concentrated rates of duty, honor and privilege .

Duty, honor and privilege are some of the highest levels in the human psyche when it comes to performing the instilled rituals of true duty. Honor as one and always will always effectively stand for itself because it is one with all that oneself is. Privilege is a facilitator that is complementary to duty and honor and as such the stance is claimed and held. Because of these three magnificent traits this allows the concepts of right and wrong to be depicted in clear black and white when it comes to infringing or not living up to the level of integrity.

As such the game is on and the active participant of morality comes into play the restrictor and inhibitor to the merging into any behavior that is reprehensible and detrimental to wearing the “shield”. Thus it compels the dual purposes of ethics which allows the effective infusing of morals to intertwine and assist in correct and proper conduct. Conclusively, ethically correct will allow the relayance of duty, honor and privilege and acts as a base of structural content when any decisions need to be made upon presumptuous occurrences.

Further, duty is as one’s left hand and honor is your right hand with privilege being your backbone. Unremitting and defensive is the code to protect, serve and teach the true aspects of being the protector of the people and assigning levels of justice with the penalties per the breaking of laws in differing patterns of criminality.

Choices and values are also hidden beneath the arm of moralistic value because every decision is internally gauged prior to the making of choice or making assertions either to support or condemn. As with choices and values being internally and voluntary reactions the level of ethical consequence helps to support even the most complexing and conflictual circumstances or events.

Based upon good core values, good consideration of informal norms, norms, value, and socialistic norms whether regulated or not helps the party commit to either a decision of ethical or non-ethical conduct or decisions.

In conclusion, ethics, morality and integrity are the enemy of criminality and the preventer of the fall into societal chaos and destruction and as such the representation of the “badge” have to be better than gold and more effusive and stable than air to clearly reflect the chasm between the police and the offender.

Incorporating Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development into the Justice System - Chief of the Police -CRIMINAL JUSTICE 220

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Chief of the Police
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Incorporating Kohlberg's Stages of Moral
Development into the Justice System
Chief of the Police
Strayer University
Felicia McCaw
Professor Judy Tompkins
CRJ 220
Online Summer 2016
August 18, 2016

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Development into the Justice System
Chief of the Police
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Justice as a concept in the American Justice System reflects the unequivocally right to fair treatment by a unified statutory regulated governmental system that is bound with laws, principles and codified codes. Based on consequential actions the acts of criminality are treated as infraction of rules, laws and breaking of the principles of laws and restrictions. As a distributive function it provides protection and fairness to people who are victimized and punishment to those who violate and break laws and is proper administration of the law throughout the land.

As a facilitator to ensure justice is evoked and carried out, as the Chief of Police and head administrator to law enforcement officers, to ensure correct duty is performed as well as that they live within the boundaries of ethics in their working career. It is one of my responsibilities to ensure that the level of ethics are instilled as a moral inhibitor to committing errors or “sins” against the code. Further as an operative it is imperative that officers in this department be exposed to the three levels of Kohlberg’s Stage of Moral Development.

The three levels of Kohlberg’s Stage of Moral Development include the following interpretation to be utilized in addressing each level within this department:

Level One
Pre-Conventional Morality

Stage 1 – In this stage or level emphasis will be made to law enforcement officers that obedience and punishment is socialized in and outside the acts of justice until it is internalized and instilled inwardly. Also, that at this stage the ability to be absolute and correct without compromise or self-violation will be realized through internal training until clarity is realized and acknowledged.

Stage 2 – Rationalization and fair play will be established in interpersonal relationships that will help keep order and is allowable for correct action.

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Level Two
Conventional Morality

Stage 3 - In this stage or level the ability to be interpersonal and conformity will be socialized and inwardly interwoven within along with respect for upper authority and social order retainership and maintenance. Also, in this stage the internal need will be acknowledged to allow the correct analysis of good officer, bad officer as well as good intent.

Stage 4 – In this stage active perception of how law officers are viewed by society will be learned in training sessions and how to reflect and teach nolmalcy of behavior in relation to the following of laws, rules, performing civic duty, honoring the power hierarchy and maintain an correct and orderly society.

Level Three
Post - Conventional Morality

Stage 5 – In this stage or level the social contract is what all law enforcement officers will have to adhere to and in be involved within and as such affectively learn to use universal ethical principles to allow it to be an inhibitor to incorrect duty and lack of conscience to prevent bribery and corruption. Also, in this stage is the requirement for upper education that will improve performance, attitudes toward diverse races to help proceed to Stage 6.

Stage 6 – In the final stage law officers will be taught that their purpose is to be democratic and protect people’s basic rights and how to relay to them that universal principles sometimes override democratic process due to the need for law and order. Further in this stage comes the possibility of using deadly force and its moral conflicts as well as consequences of actions that are required when left no other recourse.

These levels and stages have the capacity to shift around until all law officers have successfully reached Stage 6 because they are relevant to insure that a good structural moral base has been established to assist all in their duty to serve and protect. Further having training and coaching helps to ensure correct protection for them and the populace, reputation on the streets and as a good facilitator to ensure correctness and fairness is being done.

This customized interpretation of Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development can be used by law enforcement to evaluate three types of criminals (felons, misdemeanors, and civil infractions) to determine the level or stage that they are in morally as well as get a brief synopsis

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psychologically to interpret or evaluate the possibility of hidden hostility, difficulty in securing as well as possible rehabbing them for readmission into society. For example, all criminals would be looked at by a law officer being in Stage 4 and indicate that his duty is to correctly charge and act on the law. Further that they are at Stage 1 because they lack any moral inhibitors and as such cannot reach another stage or level unless the first one has or have been accomplished. As such the theory of written in stone does not facilitate that the progressive change will occur or progression to the Stage 6 will ever be accomplished.

Morality in itself is an integrious quality that has to be internalized and helps stabilize norms of society as well as help a structuralized value system that is complementary to law, law enforcers duties and changes in law and processes. When viewed morality, norms and value is the skeletal system of law enforcement that is built upon and become flesh, blood and bone.

Since morality is the base of ethics and can be viewed as the structure because it dictates what is good and bad conduct supportive of morality since it explores and questions how to keep a level of correctness in law enforcers duties by seeking to define good and evil, rights of the wrong, wrongs of the right, virtue of vice, vices of virtue, justice and crime.

Therefore, ethics is tantamount of importance in decision making in the criminal justice system and is an affective symbolizer and corrective arsenal for making ethical choices or decisions when gauging scenarios. Various approaches by law officers in my department will be possible to retain ethics as well as prima facie duties that has and always will be an innate moral obligation to be incumbent in varying situations.

Further, the act of fidelity is an implicit and explicit agreement to fulfill promises or agreements in relation to service or duty. Secondly, justice as relates to duty is also an internalized incumbent because it serves to improve the conditions of others as well as retain respect to virtue, intelligence and pleasure. Lastly, nonmaleficence is the last duty required and that is to not intentionally injure or harm suspects.

In facilitating that duties are being met the next restriction would be the preventing of law enforcement officers moving on self-interest, pursuit of pleasure by immediate acting on police corruption and insuring this avenue is addressed because it violates ethics, morality and correct duty. The removal of the “bad” officer would be effectively written up, processed and dismissed if the act of criminality is significant if not then disciplined. Further any acts that are in conflict to law administration would receive discipline and if not able to be resolved the law enforcement officer would be transferred immediately.

In conclusion, as the Chief of Police the purpose is to keep the level of correct policing stable, consistent, honest without police nonmalefience.

REFERENCES

KOHLBERG'S STAGES OF MORAL DEVELOPMENT. (n.d.). Retrieved August 18, 2016, from http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ncoverst/Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development.htm
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Ethics and Code of Conduct - Criminal Justice 220

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Ethics and Code of Conduct
Strayer University
Felicia McCaw
Professor Judy Tompkins
CRJ 220
Online Summer 2016
July 22, 2016

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As with any profession in today’s society the concern of having good ethics and a code of conduct is of utmost importance in any field. The need to explore and determine what these two mean when it deals with legal representation or with the presenting and administering of legalities, e.g., as with police officers, attorneys or judges. Because of this the pinpointing of what ethics and code of conduct is the eternal question as they change and evolve. As such the determining of what standards are used to summate what ethics is as well as the code of conduct comes into play.

Therefore, ethics as it is presented now is a well-balanced foundation that supports the standards of correctness that facilitates choices of right and wrong. Because of this attribution this serves as an inhibitor and preventer in performing criminal activities. Further values are parallistic to ethics and help with the understanding of ethics since values are what is valued most and what is worth fighting for and performing of sacrifices. Not only are values societal but they are also personal and are affected by ethnicity, religious beliefs and our personal life and experiences. Furthermore, societal values are what are more effectively utilized in correlation with ethics intermingled with personal to help facilitate integrity, honesty, hard work, kindness, compassion, empathy, sympathy, justice and bravery. Also, as ethics with values that have been instilled it is also a collective imposition that assists in the refraining of behavior that is compromisable to the code of conduct. The code of conduct are rigid highly moralistic rules that pertain to the maintaining of social norms, rules, responsibilities, practices of an individual, party or organization. Honorary conduct and correct irreproachable ethics are the primary characteristic of the position that I will be doing in the future in the field of law enforcement and teaching.

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In my chosen profession as a teacher with emphasis on law enforcement one of the three reasons ethics and integrity are important in my future is because of the need to be an exemplary example of behavior that is correct, honest and trustworthy. Further, because there have been some less than sterling examples of exhibited law enforcement my goal is to be a corrective additive to a team to ensure that the public is protected as well as served without corruption or lack of disregard to honor. Secondly, I feel that the states of ethics and integrity should be regarded as part of your DNA spiral as well as the blood in your body and because of this stance only correct behavior will suffice in the carrying out of duties. Thirdly, strictness and an incorruptible attitude with no bending due to treatment or personal prejudice is the only way to be a true facilitator and be a true fighter of crime.

Two aspects in which ethics, morality, and law differ in regards to affecting the decisions of our local enforcement officers are that the inability to gauge a dangerous situation because of the rate of personalism (racism) involved and utilized to perceive a person (Milton Hall) as an eminent threat to eight or nine officers outfitted with full police gear and weaponry and himself with only a knife. The prospect of using ethics was ignored and the ignominious decision to fire, fire when the scenario could have been peacefully and safely defused and done. Not only was this person executed but the public and observers were put in jeopardy also. Legal procedures and laws were dismissed from their minds and morality of the situation played “black man” kill and be done.

This exhibition of removal and execution is not a facet of ethical code whether regarded as police ethical code or not. This person was devalued without thought of moralistic value because to them he amounted to nothing but a “crazy” and nothing.

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Therefore, these three (ethics, morality, law) were not regarded during the confrontation as well as good judgment and because of their (policemen) acquittal of charges it is well to state that these choices of ethics, morality and consideration of law will not be facilitated here.

Two ways law enforcement should use ethics, morality, and code of conduct is to correctly gauge a situation and remain neutral (color and race blind) during the ensuing scenario during their professional discharging of services to protect the public as well as be a stickler in their personal life. The purpose of correct ethics, morality and code of conduct is that it is an ensurer that the correct job or judgment will be done that is protective of themselves as well as the person the 911 calls has been made upon therefore protection from police brutality, abuse and the misuse of the “badge” is not enabled to be called into play.

The using of law enforcement codes of conduct for this state (Michigan) and two of the most important aspects of the code as they relate to law enforcement is that unfortunately this state is one of the laggards in this country when it comes to correct usage of ethics and correct interpretation of codes and fairness of investigation. Not only are they one of the laggards but the call for public civility is virtually non-existent especially if you are a minority that has transgressed by just existing and because of this respect and congeniality is absent from them and in the courts and legal systems.

Secondly, another aspect of the code that is ignored is the plight of officers who have complained and because of the “blue code of silence” a wall of unbreakable, unforgiving subculture exists where the isolation and accusatory “silent and resentful” treatment is not controlled but cause reporting officers of code violations to be targeted and retaliated against thereby undercutting any code that has been sworn to due to intimidation.

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Lastly, because the code of silence is one of the factors that affect ethics and code of conduct this erodes the effective usage of legal codes that have been designated to keep the level of professionalism up, performance correct and thereby protect the public.


REFERENCES

What is Ethics? (n.d.). Retrieved July 22, 2016, from https://www.scu.edu/ethics/ethics-resources/ethical-decision-making/what-is-ethics/
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE 220 - WEEK 11 - DISCUSSION 11

The Three Most Important Principles
Identify and discuss the three (3) most important ethics principles that you learned in this course, and explain why they are important to you.

The three most important ethics principles that I learned in this course are as follows:

1. Honesty
2. Human Dignity (inner)
3. Virtue (moralistic behavior)

First, honesty is clearly an ethical principle that is reflective of inner socialization as well as societal socialization. Its prevalence is what makes an American an American because this country is built upon truth, fairness and righteousness. Therefore without honesty the structural basis of all legalistic systems is null, void and useless.

Secondly, human dignity is the next ethical principle that allows the inception or conception that all people are entitled to be viewed and treated as human beings. Therefore the treating of others as an end will never facilitate and help all people retain human dignity it will only achieve a minor infraction in the overall scope of criminality. My point is the removal of human dignity signifies only one thing non-acceptance and refusal to rehabilitate for correct mergence back into society.

Thirdly, virtue as the last ethical principle is a level of moralistic values that is irreproachable and cannot be compromised. It is the elusive quality that cannot be taught but is instilled early with careful, nurturing, discipline and correctness. Morals versus immorality will always prevail because the social structure if dangerously tipped can prove a deadly opponent.

As a future leader in the field of criminal justice, describe how you would ensure that your subordinates learned these three (3) principles and utilized them in their daily activities.

As a future leader in the field of Criminal Justice my purpose and intent is to relay the importance of these three ethics because they are building blocks that expand, change and evolve to higher levels of conscience and act as facilitators in correct actions as theoretical changes come about.

Emphasizing training scenarios and active involvance in honest and internal examination and invoking a desire for these correct ethical principles as a must have for all subordinates should make all realize and strive to gain, achieve change and assimilate.

Thank you.

Felicia

Response to Co-student

I agree with your post that honesty is a weapon in itself. It is a sword that is a prevalent and deadly opponent to those who are of not what this country stands for. I too like the prima facie duties ... quite similar to the Ten Commandments but a force in the legal field and arsenal.

Compassion is what I find beautiful and sympathy and helps facilitate a workable relationship with the troubled populace and the police.

You as the eye is the example. Remember this and you can't go wrong.

Thanks for being in this class. It has been very interesting.

Felicia

Response to Co-student

I agree honesty is it, self-respect toward self first allows equitable treatment towards others and almost demands respect be given to others. Equality means to me ...is you as me ... and as such I regard you the same as myself and will always treat you fairly.

Truth = Honesty. Nothing else will ever be an appropriate substitution. Law is the Law. No ifs buts or else will do. Separate self from emotional upheavals and do the best you can. Equality = All.

Thanks, I enjoyed reading your post and my co-students.

Felicia



Response to Co-student

I agree that even the most smallest of details may be just what is needed to make or break a case. Details = Precision. Evidence = Trail.

Further being criticized is always there so keep going.

Good to be in your class.

Thanks again.

Felicia