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Creating a Culture for Ethical Success

5-8 years (7.2 on avg.)

Monotony

Fatigue

Disappointment

Stress

Most significant Influences on Law Enforcement Culture

46%

23%

3%

3%

11%

10%

4%

Agency Leadership

Rank and file

Policies/Regulations

Agency demographics

Training

Community-Police relations

Other

Source: IACP’s The Police Chiefmagazine, February 2017

Most significant influence on law enforcement culture

Rule/Boundary

Conduct

Rule/Boundary

Conduct

”Fudge Line”

Conduct

”Fudge Line”

Conduct

Rationalization Line

The Styrofoam Cup. A Lesson in Humility.

The Leader’s

Role

Quality Screening

(Hiring & Promotions)

External

Accountability

(Execution, Oversight,

Regulation)

Communicating Values

(Socialization)

Promote Honest Self-Reflection

(Sense of self)

Setting a Standard“The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.”

-- Ray Kroc

Tendency to Cheat

Question Type Question Other Golfer’s One’s Own

Moving the ball

With club 23% 8%

Kicking 14% 4%

Picking up 10% 2.5%

MulligansOn 1st hole 40% 18%

On 9th hole 15% 4%

Recording scoreWriting wrongly 15% 4%

Adding wrongly 5% 1%

Source: The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves, Dr. Dan Ariely, 2012

Golfers have the ability to be dishonest and at the same time consider themselves as honest. They, like most other humans will rate their morals higher than they will rate others.

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The Corruption Continuum

Phase 1

Administrative indifference

toward integrity.

Phase 2

Ignoring obvious ethical

problems.

Phase 3

Hypocrisy and fear dominate

the culture.

Phase 4

Survival of the fittest.

Source: The Corruption Continuum: How Organizations Become Corrupt, Dr. Neal Trautman, 2000

What’s on your mind?

John Bermel

• Director of Security and Emergency Management, Carleton College www.carleton.edu

• Captain, AVPD (ret.)

• President, Influence international www.influenceinternational.org

• Email jbermel@iimail.org

• Phone 612-709-0180

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