01-25-2018, 01:05 PM
(01-25-2018, 12:54 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I take classes at the university where I work. When I go to register, I wait for my time frame to come around, and many times the classes I wanted a first shot at are full. Now, I know that I have enough ins with the Registrar and with the departments around campus that I could easily get an earlier time slot or get an override other students wouldn't. I never have, and never will.
There are many opportunities I have to get preferential treatment on campus as a student (which is our customer base) because I am an employee, but it would be unethical to do so. You're right in that the reality is that these things happen, but the reality is also that it created inequity when done in the public sector and is unethical. It is only reality because it is a remnant of the spoils system that existed before we really instituted bureaucracies and public administration models. It has been difficult to tear it out by the roots, and so it continues to exist in less egregious forms than it once did. But it is still unethical.
This is why I enjoy discussing things with you. Well argued.
The NYPD cards are wholly unethical, especially if they are expected to work as no questions asked, you're free to go. The argument I am making regarding discretion is that, if you have the discretion to let someone off of a citation, then it's hard to make a fact based argument that you are abusing said discretion. If you only let fellow LEO's off that would be abuse. If you let other people off, dependent on the circumstances, then it would not. I'd also like to stress, for others trying to engage in this discussion, that we are talking about citations, not criminal acts. Letting someone off for a criminal act would not be ethical, regardless of who committed said act.
