In making ethical principles, decision and applying them in these case scenarios, there are approaches to ethical analysis in addition to the ethical systems and principles that will need to be considered especially where power and authority become the main issue and principle. John Rawls (1957) presented an abstract procedure for deciding moral issues. He stated that “moral principles can be developed through inductive logic which is through moral judgments such as common sense, open mind, personal emotions and sympathetic knowledge of humans”. Looking at police abuse of power, (Pollock 2012) described “this as the actions where an officer’s physically injured or offends a citizen’s sense of dignity. (p.225) when police officers become corrupt, …show more content…
It also refers, in a more casual sense to someone’s belief that he/she deserves of some particular reward or benefit. I believe that the police make the choice to be corrupt. Mexico police corruption according to this case and history is among the biggest hurdles facing any president past and present in the campaign against drug trafficking. Many police officers in Mexico especially at the state and municipal levels are paid by smuggling groups to provide protection and tip them off to pending police actions. But in my understanding, discretion is the authority to make a decision between two or more choices and authority is an unquestionable power and entitlement to be obeyed that comes from fulfilling a specific role. Law enforcement professionals have a great deal of discretion regarding when to enforce the law, how to enforce, and handle disputes, when to use force. Every day of a police officer is filled with decision …show more content…
Society needs to be informed on the extreme measures police officers take to uphold the code of silence negatively and positively. We are faced with a situation where police life is at stake from the drug gang. The codes can not be controlled because of danger that the officers faces with the ruthless drug gangs. According to Pollock, not following the rules and code, Minority officers are intimidated by threatening not to back them up on calls, making racist or sexist comments in the presence of minority officers, not trying to solve crimes when minorities are victims. Knowingly not responding to or purposely delaying responding to calls in minority neighborhoods. Muir (1977) did not describe police moral dilemmas as frequent and unfavorable nor did academic, always unpopular with some groups usually resolve quickly (p.211). Many police officers view themselves as teammates linked together by portable radios and cell phones, part of a team that is no stronger than its weakest member. As members of the team, they feel a good deal of pressure to live up to the expectations of other team members and support the practice of secrecy. Among the attitudes and values identified as characteristics of a police culture are adhering to a code of silence, with grave consequences for violating it, and maintaining loyalty to other officers above all