Police Misconducts

Promises from Some Police Officers are Just an Illusion There is a very crucial dilemma concerning our country today. Police brutality is an issue that has been going on for over 25 years! So many incidents and terrible situations have resulted in this long period of time. It is truly insane that all of these issues have happened for this long. When a police officer becomes an officer they must agree to a promise of protecting the community but yet not all of these officers comply with this agreement. Not all officers live up to their promise to protect and serve the community because they contribute to false arrest, racial profiling, and witness tampering.
Police officers have participated in many forms of misconduct. One of these misconducts includes false arrest. False arrest is an arrest that is conducted without a warrant. This also means an arrest without any probable cause. This type …show more content…
Racial profiling is using someone’s race or ethnicity as a justification for suspecting him of committing a particular crime. An example of this would be if an officer was to assume a man is a terrorist because he is Muslim, or assuming a black man driving an expensive car must have stolen it. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, men and women should judge by the content of their character. They should not be discriminated by the color of their skin. This is how all policemen, and women, should think.
Lastly, witness tampering is also an activity performed by officers. Witness tampering is one of the most common types of police misconduct. This behavior concerns an officer who attempts to either change a witness testimony or prohibit a witness from testifying in a criminal or civil proceeding. This is extremely unfair for to the victims have that being dragged into these situations. This is completely against the promise police officers agree to when they start to work in law