Fatalism In The Police Department

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Unless there is a full proof way to read the thoughts of potential recruits we can only go by other effective testing methods to try and select a pool of good ethical police officers. This view may fall into the fatalism category but does have a valid argument to made. “Fatalism insists that police departments are no more than microcosms of society itself. Since the general public includes a great range of excellence, mediocrity, and depravity, every police department must be expected to include the same characteristics. In the broad society are to be found brutality, incompetence, excessive consumption of alcohol and drugs, financial corruption and other forms of lawbreaking, and racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. Therefore, …show more content…
He says that a lot of store owners and managers located in the areas that they patrol daily, tell their workers that police officer’s don’t have to pay for coffee or sodas. Some managers won’t take no for an answer. “Gratuity is definitely one of those ethical issues that we witness from time to time. I 'll put it this way, it 's one of them grey area type things for the force, and not just for my department. That 's all departments, across the nation that has this issue. If an officer goes into a community convenience store or something like that and he 's going to purchase a drink or, I could use coffee, coffee is the big one, a lot of store merchants will probably be like, "Hey! You know you 're fine." Basically, it’s just them showing the officer, "Hey. We appreciate your service. We appreciate what you do. This one is on us". That 's why I don 't get it, I don 't get that whole gratuity thing, I don 't get that twisted. If I go in there, if I 'm getting something, I go right to the register like I 'm about to pay for it. I make sure I have them give it to me. With that whole thing, what that 's there for is, today it may be a cup of coffee, tomorrow it may be a sandwich, the next day it may be a couple of sandwiches. It can start small and lead up to big stuff” (T. Fields, personal communication, Feb 16,

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