Police misconduct is when an officer violates, to some degree, the department handbook, the law of the land, or anything that might have to do with constitutional rights. The way a police agency’s police officers perform their duty or do not perform their duty may influence the way that particular agency is observed and how they are thought of in that community. If misconduct is going on in that police agency, that community will view that agency as a joke and will not want to rely on that agency and honestly who would blame them for those thoughts. When the police officer(s) are committing misconduct and that particular agency does not hold the police officer(s) accountable for their actions is when the issue become even more problematic.
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8). Deception is possibly the worst trait one would want in a police officer. That police officer is supposed to be telling the truth in all things that he or she might do. When the police officer does not tell the truth it could cause that police officer long term consequences or even the department if they do not do anything about the deception. No one wants an officer that is going to be deceiving anyone that he or she comes into contact with. The trying to change or bend the rules on how a police officer can perform out a search is very problematic and one can see this in the Mapp v. Ohio case. According to the Mapp v. Ohio case, an agency could not pretend that they had a search warrant and search what they wanted if they did not really have that search warrant (Mapp v. Ohio, …show more content…
“Once ethical risk areas have been identified, preventive counter-measures need to be put in place” (Miller, 2010). This could be one of the biggest problems though in misconduct. The reason behind that is because the agency has police officers that are working for them that think it is alright to do anything even if it is illegal to get the best outcome. The police agency needs to start holding these individuals committing noble cause corruption as soon as it is found out that it is occurring because it will more and likely keep happening if not
8). Deception is possibly the worst trait one would want in a police officer. That police officer is supposed to be telling the truth in all things that he or she might do. When the police officer does not tell the truth it could cause that police officer long term consequences or even the department if they do not do anything about the deception. No one wants an officer that is going to be deceiving anyone that he or she comes into contact with. The trying to change or bend the rules on how a police officer can perform out a search is very problematic and one can see this in the Mapp v. Ohio case. According to the Mapp v. Ohio case, an agency could not pretend that they had a search warrant and search what they wanted if they did not really have that search warrant (Mapp v. Ohio, …show more content…
“Once ethical risk areas have been identified, preventive counter-measures need to be put in place” (Miller, 2010). This could be one of the biggest problems though in misconduct. The reason behind that is because the agency has police officers that are working for them that think it is alright to do anything even if it is illegal to get the best outcome. The police agency needs to start holding these individuals committing noble cause corruption as soon as it is found out that it is occurring because it will more and likely keep happening if not