The Corruption of Noble Cause is an excerpt written by Milton Rokeach that focuses on police values. In this excerpt it compares the values that different aged police share, along with the values that citizens share. Rokeach set up 4 hypotheses’ in which he stated the types of things that might shape the values of police. The insight that the study provides police administrators with can help them understand who they have working in their department and how they might be able to change this.
The results of the first experiment indicate that police officers hold some values different that regular citizens. The citizens, or the “policed” as they were referred to in the article held the terminal values of “a world at peace, a world of beauty, …show more content…
Dr, Caldero conducted very similar experiments that Rokeach about the police values. All of the results indicated that police values remain similar throughout the years and most of these experiments results could coincide with the old ones. Although there are 17,000 police departments in the United States the few surveys conducted still prove that the officer values minimally change over time. However, this might indicate that other police officers in certain areas hold different values, For example, these experiments were conducted in certain areas, but if they were conducted in an mostly Hispanic or black department, the results might be different. This would have to be conducted throughout the whole United States to be sure, but for now the few results are very …show more content…
If this was done in the hiring process, then it would help them hire officers with other values. However, it seems that the people who apply and join this field, seem to have the same values going in. Ethics education could definitely open some officer’s minds and cause they to change their values as well. Ethical training might work for some officers as well, but not for everyone because it is hard to change the way a veteran officer might think. When dealing with police misconduct, it might show administrators the values that officer hold in the department. Although most of them are similar, it’d be hard for them to figure out which officer is likely or not to commit police misconduct. I think it is easier to leave things as they are and focus on finding out other ways to find out who is committing
The results of the first experiment indicate that police officers hold some values different that regular citizens. The citizens, or the “policed” as they were referred to in the article held the terminal values of “a world at peace, a world of beauty, …show more content…
Dr, Caldero conducted very similar experiments that Rokeach about the police values. All of the results indicated that police values remain similar throughout the years and most of these experiments results could coincide with the old ones. Although there are 17,000 police departments in the United States the few surveys conducted still prove that the officer values minimally change over time. However, this might indicate that other police officers in certain areas hold different values, For example, these experiments were conducted in certain areas, but if they were conducted in an mostly Hispanic or black department, the results might be different. This would have to be conducted throughout the whole United States to be sure, but for now the few results are very …show more content…
If this was done in the hiring process, then it would help them hire officers with other values. However, it seems that the people who apply and join this field, seem to have the same values going in. Ethics education could definitely open some officer’s minds and cause they to change their values as well. Ethical training might work for some officers as well, but not for everyone because it is hard to change the way a veteran officer might think. When dealing with police misconduct, it might show administrators the values that officer hold in the department. Although most of them are similar, it’d be hard for them to figure out which officer is likely or not to commit police misconduct. I think it is easier to leave things as they are and focus on finding out other ways to find out who is committing