What are your thoughts on these two answers at least 125WC for both......
(1.) I feel like as long as deception is used to try and solve an actual crime that has been committed, then why should it be an issue. If we can use deception in that fashion to help another victim or victims, then why would we say its unethical or illegal. Isnt the fact that the employee stole from his employer to begin with unethical. When the crime or the act was committed no thought or mention of wrong doing was considered, so as an investigator now I have to be ethical in solving the crime. No I think i am going to act in a manner that gets answers and solves the crime. I was watching the First 48 the other day and this very same incident happened. A person had went with two other accomplices to make a drug deal, but of course the accomplices had another plan in mind involving robbery and greed. The person who took the accomplices there was just supposed to be the getaway driver. After it was all said and done the accomplices robbed the person in the house, took the drugs and the money and fled. Now the driver said that he had no idea that it was going to be a robbery, but he knew that it was a drug deal, but nothing else and that he was never really at the scene. Once caught, the investigators put that deceptive pressure on him saying that the accomplices named him as the shooter. Well at this point he knew that he had remained in the car the entire time and had to come clean about actually being there at the scene, so he ended up telling the truth and no charges were filed against him, even though a murder had taken place.
(2.) Deception is a very important tool that investigators can use while a person is being interviewed or interrogated. It is ethical for private investigators to stay within boundaries, when conducting investigations for their employer by staying away from aggressive tactics. It's easy for these types of investigators to get in trouble and employers end up being sued. It is ethical for private investigators that work for employers to ask straight forward question to get straight forward answers. It is the private investigators job to weigh the evidence and conclude whether a companies policies were violated or misconduct occurred. Therefore there is evidence of some sort that pin points the individual being investigated. I think it would be okay for private investigators to exaggerate a little bit because the are not police investigators the rules are different.
I think that using deception becomes unethical or illegal when investigators go beyond just using a lie but decide to make up fake documents, tell the employee their going to jail, holding an employee for a long period of time during the interview or interrogation. When an investigator is interviewing an employee the evidence should be right there in black and white, video surveillance documents, etc. If the interview is not done properly then the employers could be in trouble with the EEOC and legal action could be taken.