Officers of the law are professionals who are experts and claim a high degree of competence and knowledge of the law that most other individuals lack. Not only do they have knowledge, of the law but they have been granted authority and power to make sure that the laws are upheld and carried out. Even through all of past controversies, people still have respect for the badge and the power that is bestowed upon it, a power that Robert Ford misused in his tenure. Detective Ford on several accounts used his position and power to strike fear in the hearts of the accused in order to get a conviction, even when the accused was innocent. For Example in the Lafayette Grill case, Detective Ford inflicted his power in a negative way to get four men to
