Police Ethics Questionnaire
Do you believe police officers should let personal judgments or opinions enter their decision process?
Do you think profiling based on race is EVER permissible?
Is a white person loitering in a high-black area something that should be a cause for concern?
Should a black person loitering in a gated community a cause for concern?
Is a nervous Arab person boarding an airplane a concern?
Do you believe that racial profiling is a massive issue?
Do you think race-oriented groups are too sensitive to some police actions and initiatives?
Do crime statistics at all justify targeting of people based on race?
Do you agree with the use of police dogs and infrared sensors to gain warrants or probable cause to search cars or houses?
Is the scent of a drug or the sight of typically associated paraphernalia (e.g. Chore Boy, papers, etc.) enough probable cause for a search? Should it be?
Is enforcing minor laws such as skateboarding bans and loitering something police should be spending a lot of time on?
12) Are DUI checkpoints ethical and/or fair?
13) Are police officers generally too brash/rude? Are they too nice?
14) Do you agree with rules of evidence being enforced at all times? For example, if a person that is clearly guilty had their rights violated, should they walk?
15) On a scale of one to ten, with 1 being no ethics at all and 10 being completely ethical, how ethical do you think your local police officers are?
16) Same question as 15, but rate police officers across the country
17) If your answers from 15 and 16 varied, why?
18) On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being completely acceptable and 1 being not acceptable at all, how acceptable do you find profiling based on race if the reasons behind it are "common sense" or noble?
19) On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being no agreement and 10 being complete agreement, do you agree that the disparate arrest and sentencing rates for blacks and Hispanics vs. whites are based on disparate activities or is it racism?
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