For as long as humans have been around, ethics has been a huge factor in everyday life. People’s everyday actions involve choices and not always are people’s choices ethical and moral. The temptation to make unethical decisions is significant. Sometimes people do not even realize their actions could be unethical unless someone pointed it out to them or they get in trouble. The Kansas City Police Department had assumed that there were unethical actions taking place with some of their KCK SWAT police officers and took action to catch them in the act. What they found was not only unethical but very illegal and as officers of the law, they felt that they could get away with it and they fell into the temptation of wrong doings.
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But, being unethical is a lot easier than staying ethical. These men knew what they were doing was wrong, but being an officer that searching homes, having expensive belongings and money lying around can make it easier to steal and avert to unethical and illegal actions. As police officers, they have a role to fulfill, and that is to be an example to citizens that they enforce the law upon. During the last year or two, there have been a plethora of unethical crimes that police officers have done, resulting in many protests, police officers losing their jobs, and jail time for many …show more content…
(California penal code 459 - burglary law. n.d.) Criminal trespassing could lead to around 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine in the state of California. (Wallin. 2015.) On top of both of those counts, if an individual was carrying an illegal concealed weapon that would add more jail time and higher fines. For these officers legally being on someone’s property conducting a search warrant and carrying legal weapons, they were able to receive less harsh punishments. Of course, Jeffrey Bell, received the highest amount of jail time, but after conducting, but compared to what Bell had done and if another average person had done the same, Bell received an easy sentence. (The United States of America vs. Jeffrey M. Bell, Darryl M. Forrest, and Dustin
A total of three …show more content…
But, being unethical is a lot easier than staying ethical. These men knew what they were doing was wrong, but being an officer that searching homes, having expensive belongings and money lying around can make it easier to steal and avert to unethical and illegal actions. As police officers, they have a role to fulfill, and that is to be an example to citizens that they enforce the law upon. During the last year or two, there have been a plethora of unethical crimes that police officers have done, resulting in many protests, police officers losing their jobs, and jail time for many …show more content…
(California penal code 459 - burglary law. n.d.) Criminal trespassing could lead to around 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine in the state of California. (Wallin. 2015.) On top of both of those counts, if an individual was carrying an illegal concealed weapon that would add more jail time and higher fines. For these officers legally being on someone’s property conducting a search warrant and carrying legal weapons, they were able to receive less harsh punishments. Of course, Jeffrey Bell, received the highest amount of jail time, but after conducting, but compared to what Bell had done and if another average person had done the same, Bell received an easy sentence. (The United States of America vs. Jeffrey M. Bell, Darryl M. Forrest, and Dustin