Chuck Christenson, a sworn police officer at an unknown police department, has frequently used his personal Facebook to express his unsavory views on the community. Chuck has been working on the force for more than 10yrs now and he has been with this agency for 8yrs. Christenson is a man that loves going on Facebook and talk about things he dislikes. After a hard day’s work Steven’s loves to go on to his Facebook account and have a nice glass of fine apple cider while expressing his views of the people he dislikes. Christenson uses terrible words to describe minorities in his community for a couple of days now. Christenson has frequently made comments on Facebook that some have considered racist and homophobic. Some in the community have pointed…show more content… Free speech as we all know in America comes from the First Amendment which states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” (U.S. Const. amend. I) This means the public, in general, and all those living in the US, are granted this right. Also, there is a fine line between expressing yourself and blatantly trying to cause someone emotional distress. Even then certain things can’t be said like yelling "Bomb" on a plane. The workplace is a bit different. This, though, becomes the base line where other laws over the years have made two distinctions in terms of private and public…show more content… I think that this ethical line we have with officers is a good thing because officers will show how they perceive not only the world they live in, but what’s going in their mind with that single decision making processes - it exposes the "real" person. Even though this single act is tiny in terms of a lager ethical decision, it still holds weight. I think Chuck did not have the right values and ethics to determine whether what he was doing was wrong, and that it has a larger affect. There is a great deal of pain out there in the world without causing more. We must lead the new generation of police officers into a brighter future where they are more caring for and compassionate of people in the community. “While the viewing of prohibited Internet sites from the workplace is a cause for employer discipline of an employee in both the public and private sector, the issues surrounding social networking sites may be a bit more muddled. As a generation of new officers who have grown up with access to these social networking sites enter the ranks, they are less inclined to see the problem with social networking sites and employer placed limits on their off-duty use. Just as a prior generation of officers were forbidden to frequent certain establishments when off-duty, a new generation of officers may be precluded from their activity on the Internet.”
