Essay: The Ethics of Practice
You are the Deputy Chief of Police at a medium-size, suburban police department considering adopting the use of Tasers as part of its continuum of sanctions.
With your chosen organization, use credible sources to conduct research on your chosen scenario. Based on your research, provide an analysis of recommendations to effectively and ethically implement that practice. Based on your research, you will then write a 6- to 8-page
memorandum to the State Criminal Justice Policy Commission summarizing your recommendations.
Your memorandum, formatted according to the APA Requirements, must include each of the following:
Describe the chosen practice in detail. Include a brief history of the use of the practice in other locales.
What are the ethical questions involved regarding your practice? Ensure that you identify them according to each of the ethical frameworks we identified in Week 1.
Make a recommendation as to how this practice should be implemented. This will include a specific time frame, including a time line, the clients who will be served (for example, first-time offenders only or nonviolent offenders), and describe in detail how the program will work, based on evidence-based practice from the literature.
Discuss the challenges and possible barriers to implementing this practice.
Identify and describe in detail all of the stakeholders affected by this practice.
Describe the possible outcomes of implementing this practice.