In early July, the death of a civilian under the hands of the police in the U.S. occurred. Philando Castile, who was only 32 years old, was fatally shot by police officers from the passenger seat of his girlfriend’s car. According to an ABC News article by Julia Jacobo and Enjoli, the police officer planned to stop the vehicle Castile was in because he unethically assumed that Castile and the driver were robbers based on racial profiling (par. 4). After the officer killed Castile, the driver live-streamed the aftermath scene on her Facebook account and states that the officer assumed Castile was pulling out a gun instead of his wallet and shot him four times in the process. Philando Castile was fatally shot based on uncertain and false pretences.…
Blink Essay Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink presents a wealth of interesting information about humans and the way we think. Much of this information comes in discrete chunks, each the result of a different social science experiment. Many of these ideas are applicable to the rest of our lives. There are three main sections that have great meaning in this book, "Seven Second in the Bronx," the "Love Lab," and "Blink in Black and White." These sections show the true meaning of why the book Blink was written.…
Cops in all states are allowed the authority to utilize constraint to fulfill legal targets, for example, capture, passage to serve a warrant or make a capture, and detainment. Freeman v. Gut, 483 F.3d 404 (fifth Cir. 2007).The 1989 case of Graham v. Connor is a exemplar of how the activities of one officer can begin a procedure that utilizes the law. Utilizing the Graham standard, an officer must apply unavoidably suitable levels of force, in view of the exceptional conditions of each case. The officer's drive ought to be connected in a similar fundamental manner that a "objectively reasonable" officer would in similar conditions.…
Although police respond to emergencies far less frequently than to routine incidents,32 emergency response is a vital aspect of what police agencies do. Emergency responses, often referred to as critical incidents, are used for crimes in progress, traffic accidents with serious injuries, natural disasters, incidents of terrorism, officer requests for assistance, and other situations in which human life may be in jeopardy. Emergency responses take priority over all other police work, and until an emergency situation is secured and some order restored, the officers involved will not turn to other tasks. An important part of police training involves emergency response techniques, including first aid, hostage rescue, and the physical capture of…
The use of force policy and the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) policy can often be too detailed in nature. This police dictate what orderly steps an officer must take to enforce policies because law enforcement administrators and managers decide subjectively if the action taken by the officer was right or wrong. These policies are detailed in nature to them having a higher risk of litigation. For example, an officer is faced with a hostile Inmate who appears to be under the influence of a substance. The officer attempts to communicate with the inmate, but the irate inmate begins to yell and spits in the officer’s face.…
According to some authors, the law acts as a fundamental value for police officers and not only as a form of legitimacy but also as a justification for daily police actions (Herbert, 1998; Manning, 1977). Officers feel obligated to use the law to uphold a social order and to keep the peace. Police officers use the law in every situation to determine what their action should be to solve that situation. The law shapes the way officers can and cannot act on a daily basis. This may not hold true for every officer but for the majority of police officers the law determines how they do their job efficiently and to the best of their ability.…
Aside from issues where the law is clear in what an officer “shall” do, the constraints may become more apparent in regards to the community’s perception of certain crimes, community demographics, and the officers themselves. I have experienced this with refugee communities, and it clearly affected how I exercised discretion. In some cases, it became a teaching moment on both the community and me as to what is acceptable behavior and what is not. Taking the time to realize that even though refugees receive some “training” before they arrive in the U.S., not everything is addressed, and assimilation takes time.…
This illustrates a clear weakness of Police discretion and the different problems that can arise when a police officer abuses his or her discretionary powers and the ways in which an officers personal beliefs and views might influence their use of…
Officers Daily are faced with the balancing act of up holding the Fourth Amendment rights of individual people and protecting and upholding the law. Officers must know when they can can stop and question someone, conduct a search, who can authorize a search. Police also have to know when they are allowed to arrest someone. Simultaneously, police must know when to uphold the law and keep suspect rights intact. The most important, is for an officer to uphold a persons Fourth Amendment Rights, which gives people the right to be safe and secure in their home and are protected from unreasonable search and seizures.…
Police brutality is the excessive use of force, meaning they harm the innocent and act tougher than they have to be. Officers who are supposed to protect and serve citizens are doing the exact opposite. Every day in America police officers cross the line and abuse citizens. They do it because they can and know that they can get away with it. Officers know that their department will let them commit many false arrests, protect them from all the abuse they’ve done, and none will be charged.…
Correctional Officers around the nation is face with a lot of reasonability on a daily basis. Correctional Officers are reasonable for all law enforcement duties within the jail and prison system which is county, state and federal. According to the Bureau of labor statistics there are 469,500 correction officers around the nations working rotating shifts which can range from 8 to 10 hour shifts. The Bureaus also states correctional officer position can be dangerous and stressful. Every year many correction officers has encounter a serous confrontation with inmates, the officer is exposed to contagious diseases.…
It is understood that not all insubordination may due to an officer’s unwillingness to follow orders, but due to a lack of training and supervision. However, failure to hold officers accountable for their lack of order anddiscipline can lead them to believe that their actions are acceptable. Not all reprimands need to be harsh, as leaders they must also practice fairness. They shall commend an officer’s good work, but also coach and train their failures in an effort to fix the causes of failure. Law enforcement officers are supposed to be exemplary role models.…
Use of Force Paper What is use of force in police work; well for one thing it is unescapable and goes hand in hand with doing your job as a police officer. In many situations the lives of ordinary people and officers can be taken if use of force is not used properly or when necessary. There are so many different scenarios that can come into play when an officer decides to use force. Also they have to think about is it justified, have they had the proper training and is the department going to cover my butt or be held liable. There is no single, completely agreed-upon definition of use of force.…
The law provides boundaries for officials to work within, however, it does not eliminate them from utilizing discretion. The decisions to intervene in a situation, cite, arrest, or prosecute the individual are all greatly discretionary (Greenleaf, Skogan, & Lurigio, 2008). A police officers ability to utilize discretion is the beginning of what could lead to a long judicial process. When making a traffic stop, they have the decision to issue a verbal warning or issue a ticket. A major downfall to law enforcements discretionary character is ethnic or racial profiling.…
Police Discretion is at the core of policing, allowing officers to approach different situations with different approaches. Discretion is seen as the most essential element of policing, yet discretion is also the source of many problems. Over the year’s discretion has become a more prominent issue amongst the public, and due to social media and the increased use of the internet, videos and new reports can be shared with millions in a matter of seconds. Yet the truth is the discretion an officer’s use is comprehensively subjective to real-world situations rather than adopted by a certain agenda. Police discretion an essential and required part of police work (Schulenberg, 2015, pg.247).…