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Article: Ethics in police decisionmaking. (related article)
- Article from:
- The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
- Article date:
- August 1, 1993
- Author:
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Modeling the Corporate Method
In the business community, when an unethical corporation hurts consumers, the government steps in and implements controls on the public's behalf. Private industry must practice self-regulation or risk government regulation. Many professions, such as physicians, bankers, and engineers, use codes of ethics as a means of self-regulation. Interestingly, in "Institutionalizing Ethics into the Corporation," noted ethicist James Weber does not mention police departments as an example of those entities having codes of ethics.(1)
Yet, many police departments do have ethics codes. Unfortunately, without a means to institutionalize such ...