FOCUS: IDEALS
NAME:JOHN RADECKI
STEP ONE: THE DETAILS OF THE CASE
(1) Choose one inquiry, from inquiries 1 - 28 (pages 114 - 117). Indicate which inquiry you chose, and then briefly explain it in your own words:
I chose to do inquiry twelve on page 115. It describes a police officer that works undercover at a local college. Her job is to make friendships, and be an informant to the police department about the drug trafficking on campus. She ends up arresting people that she had fake friendships with.
(2) Stakeholders: Name each person, group, organization, etc., that has a stake in this outcome
1. The Undercover Officer
2.The drug pushers
3. The local college
4. The police department
5. The College Students and Employees
(3) Are the details given sufficient? Why or why not?
The details of the inquiry where not sufficient enough to conclude whether what the officer did was right. She had a duty and she had to fulfill her job, but the inquiry doesn't give details on how she formed the relationships. The undercover operations are important to ending crime, but some of the their tactics can be border-line infraction on a person's privacy.
(4) What additional questions does this inquiry raise?
What did the officer do/say to the "friends" she was making?
Was she asking where to find drugs?
What was the evidence that she had to find in order to make arrests?
How many people where arrested in the end?
How close did she become with her new "friends"?
STEP 2:
1. Obligations (aka "duties"): Optional this week
2. Moral Ideals (aka "virtues"): See breakdown of ideals below
3. Consequences (aka "outcomes" or "results"): Optional this week
1. Justice- The undercover officer did not use any "playing of the favorites," and she arrested those that are guilty. Justice was served through the undercover operation, and society has benefited from her actions. (108)
2. Courage- The woman officer had to keep her identity intacted while becoming close to people she knew were involved in criminal activity. Her goal was to find the truth no matter what she had to do. (108)
3. Honesty- The undercover officer can look past the friendships that she has formed to fulfill her professional demands. She does not hold back any information that she has come up with, and she has made the maximum amount of arrests in the case. (109)
4. Gratitude- The public and the police force should show the brave police officer some thanks for what she has done. She has taken some criminals off of the campus, and made the community a better place. (109)
STEP 3
Alternative #1: The police officer could form deeper relationships that would keep her from giving evidence for certain individuals. She would be protecting her new found friends.
Alternative#2: The drug pushers could find out that she is a undercover police officer, and could harm her or leave town. This would create even more problems for the police department.
Alternative #3: If the officer was afraid to approach certain individuals, but rather just created bonds with people that she wasn't scared to be around then she would only make half the arrests. The higher in power drug pushers would just move away, or be more careful of who they talk to.
STEP 4
Examine the action taken or proposed and decide whether it achieves the greater good (the most widespread "respect for persons")...if it does not, choose one that will, from your alternatives. Where the choice of actions is such that no good can be achieved, choose the action that will result in the lesser evil.
The action taken will definitely achieve the greater good for all persons involved. She resolved justice, and she did the job that was asked of her to the fullest. Getting all the criminals off the campus will make the campus and the community that much safer for everyone involved.
1. In your own words, describe something new that you learned from this week’s assigned reading material and guidance.
The most important thing that I learned from this assignment is how to properly analyze a inquiry. I found out the meaning for each individual ideal, and it helped to make me realized that ideals are not just described with a few words. The portion of the chapter that was titled "Ideals in Conflict;" was helpful in explaining how ideals do not always work together. (107-110)
2. In your own words, describe in detail some insight you gained, about the material, from one of your classmates' blogs this week.
3. Did you post a thoroughly completed post to your blog on time this week?
Yes, I completed this blog post on time.
4. Did you ALSO print this out, so you can bring it to class and earn total points?
No, I did not attend class this week.
5. Of 25 points total, my efforts this week deserve: Insert your JUSTIFIED answer here.
Since I did not attend class I would give my blog a 10 out of 12.5. I used the readings from the book and changed the words to my own. I answered all questions, and followed the guideline.
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