Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness: What Was Lacking in Tulsa
The deplorable shooting of an unarmed man named Eric Courtney Harris was precipitated by unethical and ineffective leadership practices and policies used in the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office. One of the key issues in this case is that the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office relies on public elections of their sheriffs, inviting potential corruption and preventing law enforcement from being independent from politics. Another issue in this case reflects poorly on almost every other police department in the nation: ineffective training. Finally, the Tulsa case reveals the problems with entrenched organizational cultures that condone violent responses to conflicts rather than inculcating nonviolent conflict resolution strategies. All of the problems in the Tulsa case can be traced to leadership failures, ethical violations, a lack of self-awareness, and a lack of strong values.
Former Tulsa deputy Robert Bates was an insurance salesman who was 74 years of age when he shot Harris. O’Connor (2015) claims that his training was “murky” at best, as during Bates’ trial, even the defense had no tangible proof as to what kind of training the civilian actually had before being let onto the sheriff’s force. In fact, there seems to have been flagrant conflicts of interest, as Bates “led the most recent re-election campaign” of the sheriff (Stanley Glanz) who stepped down after being indicted for misconduct (O’Connor, 2015, p. 1). Bates was not a trained officer of the law, but instead a personal “friend” of the sheriff who had also “donated...
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