Assignment:
1. Are undercover police operations ethical? Please support your opinion.
2. When an officer commits a crime, what sanctions should be imposed? Officers, like any other person, make mistakes. Therefore, should the officer be given a second chance or should the officer be fired regardless of the level of crime?
3. There are typically stringent hiring standards within the police community. In times of greater need for officers, departments will occasionally relax hiring standards to allow more candidates to qualify for positions. Is it the duty of a department to have a larger force of possibly lesser qualified officers, or a smaller force of candidates with greater qualifications? What would be the positives and negatives of both?
In our history, we have numerous leaders and rulers who committed atrocities just because they hated a nation, a group of people, or a culture. However, in our more recent history, Slobodan Milosevic was probably the closest to what Hitler had tried to achieve in Nazi Germany, as Milosevic attempted to "racially clean" Bosnia in much the same manner as Hitler. Then there were dictators such as Saddam Hussein, Mommar Gaddhafi, and Joseph Stalin who are infamous in history for their atrocities and megalomania personality.
4. What do you believe causes leaders with so much power to commit such atrocities? Is there a criminal theory that explains it or does it depend on the individual dictator?
5. What affect criminally/biologically do you believe that Nazi Germany had on the children it tried to train and recruit for Hitler's future army? Is there a criminological theory that explains the effect it had on German children?
6. Could you imagine the U.S. without 1st Amendment protection? What would be the possible negatives effects if we did not enjoy these rights
7. We now have racist hate groups such as the Aryan Nation that worship Hitler and think he was a great man and visionary. They also believe in his idea of the "perfect" Aryan race, and promote violence and hate. Should the first amendment protect them?