Explain How The Constitution Changed The Way Police Do Their Job

In today’s society most will often wonder if the United States Constitution has effected the way police can do their job. Most will wonder if the majority of the police even follow the constitution while doing their job. What the constitution does is basically give the citizens of the United States their basic rights and layout the laws for them to follow. The constitution came into play in 1787 and created 27 different amendments that help the United States citizens with an overall layout of the main rules and regulations, but not all have to deal with the way police do their job. The constitution definitely changes the way police do their job, but it keeps everything fair so each citizen is treated fairly when it comes to being caught by the police. To begin this paper I want to say that the constitution has not changed the way police do their job, but the generation is starting to change the way police do their job. For many years policing has been fine and done very well in many opinions. It is the changing of society that is changing the way police can do their job because they cannot treat every race fairly in today’s society no matter what they do and how they do it. If an officer needs to shoot an African American it is …show more content…
What this amendment means is that if any police officer picks a person up for committing a horrific crime, cannot go to serve their punishment until charged by grand jury. This also includes no double jeopardy so they person cannot be charged twice for the same crime. The role that also comes into play while talking about the Fifth Amendment is that right of not having to testify or answer any of questions. According to Sara Ciarelli, “the Fifth Amendment was designed to ban compulsory oaths or torture” (Ciarelli, 2003, p. 651). Basically what she means here is so no suspect that is picked up for crime does not get excessive punishment or