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Jim Batsel Case Study

• Joined the Tyrone Police Department in 1986 – enthusiastic and sincere.

• Joined the Riverdale Department of Public Safety in 1988 – witnessed unethical acts by superiors.

• Joined the regional SWAT team – began to abuse steroids.

• Became friends with five bouncers at a local bar – joined their criminal enterprise.

• Committed large-scale burglaries and armed robberies in 1992-93.

• Engaged in armed robbery at the home of the bar’s owner – killed the owner.

• Sentenced to life in prison.

Jim Batsel Case Study

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Jim Batsel Case Study

• Joined the Tyrone Police Department in 1986 – enthusiastic and sincere.

• Joined the Riverdale Department of Public Safety in 1988 – witnessed unethical acts by superiors.

• Joined the regional SWAT team – began to abuse steroids.

• Became friends with five bouncers at a local bar – joined their criminal enterprise.

• Committed large-scale burglaries and armed robberies in 1992-93.

• Engaged in armed robbery at the home of the bar’s owner – killed the owner.

• Sentenced to life in prison.

Jim Batsel Case Study

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Jim Batsel Case Study

Question 1: Which factors were most influential in Jim Batsel

committing crimes that sent him to prison for the rest of his life?

Question 2: Jim Batsel asked some officers who were uninvolved with

the robberies if they though he should join the criminals and begin

committing crimes. What would you have said to him if you had been of

the officers asked?

Question 3: Batsel told the officer he worked with about his criminal

activities. What would you have said to him if you had been one of the

officers he told?

Question 4: Would you have turned in Jim Batsel to authorities? If so,

how would you have done so?

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Jim Batsel Case Study

• Integrity is often compromised because of: Sense of victimization. Sense of entitlement versus accountability. Sense of loyalty versus integrity.

• The continuum of personal compromise of integrity includes: Acts of omission. Administrative acts of commission. Criminal acts of commission.

Summary and Review