Week # 15, Chapter 14, The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics.

Please answer the following question only using this textbook - Perez D.W & Moore J.A. Police Ethics - A Matter of Character 2nd Edition and PowerPoint as a reference.

1. Students first mentioned in Chapter 11 and now mentioned in this week's reading is the Kantian perspective concerning the code of ethics, particularly within the acceptance of gratuities, which places an entirely different interpretation in the acceptance of gratuities Slippery Slope perspective. Students, please define both views and indicate which perspective you most agree with and why.

2. This week's assigned reading states that accepting gratuities may place the police officer in a position to make a moral judgment that sacrifices the authority of the badge, while seldom said, there is an implicit quid pro quo in such citizen-police interaction. Students, first define Quid Pro Quo ACCORDING TO YOUR ASSIGNED READING, then please explain in straight and simple English what the author was implying in the previously stated passage.

Define the following terms:

Aspirational Code

Code of Ethics

Utopian