Assignment task: Professionalism and Ethics
You are a patrol officer who splits a zone with another officer. The other officer is very well respected inside the agency and the community. He has received several commendations and was recently named Officer of the Year. You respond to a call with him and, as you leave the scene, observe him wreck his patrol car into a mailbox. There is very little damage done to the patrol car. You don't say anything, assuming the officer will follow proper protocols. Later, however, you learn that the officer said the damage was on the car when he began his shift and even noted such damage on his vehicle inspection form.
Question 1: Where does this officer's action fall on Table 5.1 of the text, the chart showing the professionalism of agencies?
Question 2: How does this apply to the truth of professionalism?
Question 3: One must have two moral virtues to achieve 'being good.' What are they?