Do you feel that education and/or training in ethics would reduce incidents of police corruption?

Question

Please serious answers only.

Answer 1

Ethics education and training is a start but that is not enough. There has to be policy and accountability starting from the police management. The ethics policy applies to everyone in the police force, with consequences for such violations.

Answer 2

Absolutely. Since the late fifties and early sixties, the standards of education for children has been lowered. One of the first standards allowed to be lowered to oblivion is what I remember as "Citizenship Class".

Every school day, from the the first grade to graduation, there was an hour set aside to aggressively encourage and indoctrinate children with the ideas of ethics and morality with the purpose being an integration into law-abiding society.

Such topics in Citizenship Class included etiquette, an explanation of law and its necessity, diplomacy, tact, critical thinking, sober debate, etc.

This applies to your question in that students without such early education concerning ethic and moral principals have entered and taken their place as members of society.

It is important to include education and training concerning ethics to all members of law enforcement. Such has already been incorporated into the police academies everywhere? Why then is there an obvious increase of and disregard for ethics among a minority of law enforcement professionals? I posit that the lack of early ethical instruction has affected their decision to obey the law as they enforce it.

Most importantly, these individuals may perceive that there are so few role models for ethical behavior, both within their professional lives and in society as a whole, that ethics and deciding to adhere to their advantages to society are not only unnecessary, but unimportant.

Early education is failing in the institution of ethical and moral principals. Adults without such instruction will not act decently, politely, or with an understanding of how ethics and morals are more effective to fulfillment than lawlessness.

Answer 3

"Education" is only a partial answer. Most abuse stems from personality disorders and require "therapy" to get past.