In this scenario that are a few ethical and legal issues. The first ethical issue is the store owner knew he was wrong but wanted the deputy chief to tell the junior officer not to write him a ticket. Now legally this is wrong because he ran a red light and could have caused an accident. Therefore, it is wrong for the deputy chief to tell him not to write the ticket plus it raises question about how people who do small favors for you get special treatment.
I feel that they truly started to look into the problems with ethics and police officer misconduct as early as the nineteenth century but did not seriously look at the problem until the twentieth century. This was due to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which gave new protection to citizens that had suffered discriminatory policing. This also gave new individual privacy rights as well as minimizes some of the power a police and strengthens the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure, which helped a lot of people.
I honestly feel that fifty years ago he would have been let go without the ticket and the deputy chief would have covered it up because there was a lot of corruption going on back than and the officer would have been told not to say anything. Now twenty-five years later …show more content…
Although, things have gotten better over the years there is still some issues dealing with ethics in criminal justice that I feel will never be able to be solve because of the way we think as human. One of my reason for this is race because we know that police officers are to serve and protect no matter what color a person’s skin is but there are still today police officer black or white that still have problem with one race or all races. Therefore, until this issue is resolved it will never truly be not an
I feel that they truly started to look into the problems with ethics and police officer misconduct as early as the nineteenth century but did not seriously look at the problem until the twentieth century. This was due to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which gave new protection to citizens that had suffered discriminatory policing. This also gave new individual privacy rights as well as minimizes some of the power a police and strengthens the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure, which helped a lot of people.
I honestly feel that fifty years ago he would have been let go without the ticket and the deputy chief would have covered it up because there was a lot of corruption going on back than and the officer would have been told not to say anything. Now twenty-five years later …show more content…
Although, things have gotten better over the years there is still some issues dealing with ethics in criminal justice that I feel will never be able to be solve because of the way we think as human. One of my reason for this is race because we know that police officers are to serve and protect no matter what color a person’s skin is but there are still today police officer black or white that still have problem with one race or all races. Therefore, until this issue is resolved it will never truly be not an