Find this article: Full-text: Article Measuring ethics: when tensions rise, poli

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Find this article: Full-text: Article Measuring ethics: when tensions rise, police officers who learn and live their ethics will continue to set the pace….by Tim Pardue. Found in Law Enforcement Technology, 42.5 (May 2015) p6. Word Count: 821.

Read the article, and in the discussion forum, respond to the following questions. Remember to be persuasive use facts and logic in your response. Identify the sources of information that you use, and try to dig deeper into the issue than simply drawing general conclusions from specific incidents.

What does the article and its source have to say about the way the public views the ethics of police officers as compared to the other professions listed?

Do you think that the news media is responsible for creating a disproportionately negative view of police officers?

Why do you think that people seem to more willing to publicly protest the actions of police officers but not the actions of those who they view, according to the survey that was done, as being significantly less ethical?

Explanation / Answer

News has a propensity to sensationalized snippets of a certain instance and bloat them in a proportion that makes the masses assume thst the incident taking place is that of commonality.

That is, after, maybe, two reports of unethical officers indulging in ethical and morally bankrupt arrests or killings, there is a propensity to make sweeping generalizations across the entire sect of police officers, which is a fallacious and statically wrong fbased argument and fact.

But due to its far flung reach, news is able to revolutanlise masses against the law enforcement.

In fact, according to surveys conducted, people trust law enforcement more than clergy members and the 2012 congress itself, but these pieces of information aren't publicized.

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