Why Do People Engage In Search Warrants?

In the Kansas City Police Department, the three officers, Jeffrey Bell, Dustin Sillings and Darryl Forrest were arrested for making unethical choices involving stealing property from homes while engaging in search warrants. There are many reasons why a person acts unethically. But, what are the factors that would cause three men to steal from people’s property during a search warrant? There are implicit and explicit factors involved in this situation and there are a number of reasons why these factors would seem appealing to them. The factors that these men have shown come from a positivist approach which involves, biological, psychological, social, and economic factors. (Albanese. 2006.) Some explicit factors that could have been a source to their decision to behave unethically and immorally are, pressure …show more content…
Pleasure can come from stealing if someone has a psychological issue, like kleptomania. (Psychological studies on shoplifters, shoplifting and kleptomania. 2014.) A sociological issue can also explain why these three men succumbed to stealing from people’s homes. Psychological explanations for becoming unethical is less common, while sociological explanations for unethical behaviors are more common. If people have been raised to think stealing things because you need it or because it is there and easy to grab is “fine” then they are going to grow up doing the same thing. (Albanese. 2006.) Which comes to my second reason of power; these men feel they have the power as a police officer to do as they please and they can get away with it. In my opinion, this is a social hierarchy issue in the officer’s minds. These men were legally allowed into these homes to do a search and might think, “they are criminals and we are police officers, we have the power and can do what we want”. But, even police officers can be