First of all, in order to support my hypothesis, I plan to explore different articles about how organizational problems as well the police subculture plays an important role in enhancing police misconduct and brutality. According to the article Handling Police Conduct in an ethical way by Daniel Barry it stated how past efforts for preventing police misconduct and brutality only focused on individuals incidents, disregarding underlying organizational problems. It also pointed out how police organizations try to fix the problem recurring to the Rotten Apple theory in order to shift blame away from their departments. “The rotten apple is when officers engage in corruption in their own” (Burns 2013). Focusing only on the rotten apple defense has allowed police executives to blame the behavior of misconduct as an individual issue rather than systematic problems in the
First of all, in order to support my hypothesis, I plan to explore different articles about how organizational problems as well the police subculture plays an important role in enhancing police misconduct and brutality. According to the article Handling Police Conduct in an ethical way by Daniel Barry it stated how past efforts for preventing police misconduct and brutality only focused on individuals incidents, disregarding underlying organizational problems. It also pointed out how police organizations try to fix the problem recurring to the Rotten Apple theory in order to shift blame away from their departments. “The rotten apple is when officers engage in corruption in their own” (Burns 2013). Focusing only on the rotten apple defense has allowed police executives to blame the behavior of misconduct as an individual issue rather than systematic problems in the