Ethical Decision Making: Policing with Principled Insight Video

For policing professionals, public trust, integrity, and liability are constantly on the line. Often the difference between effective community policing and the failure of an agency’s public-safety mission is determined by the decisions of individual officers.

With so much at stake, stressing police ethics as simply a means of discouraging bad behavior is wholly insufficient. Effective policing requires changing the concept of police ethics from merely an after-thought, to a controlling insight that informs and guides police practitioners from an internal, personal capacity.

This thought-provoking video, part of NCPI’s Ethical Decision Making: Policing with Principled Insight program, addresses this fundamental shift. It can be used to spark conversation and contemplation with agency personnel and community stakeholders and is a powerful tool for self-reflection.

Created in partnership with the USDOJ, COPS Office, Ethical Decision Making: Policing with Principled Insight is one of NCPI’s most impactful and rewarding endeavors to date. It is timeless, powerful, and exceptionally relevant for the professionals facing the realities of policing in the 21st century.ps for local CIT leaders interested in bringing these innovations to their communities.