Police misconduct

Promises from Some Police Officers are Just an Illusion There is a very crucial dilemma concerning our country today. Police brutality is an issue that has been going on for over 25 years! So many incidents and terrible situations have resulted in this long period of time. It is truly insane that all of these issues have happened for this long. When a police officer becomes an officer they must agree to a promise of protecting the community but yet not all of these officers comply with this agreement. Not all officers live up to their promise to protect and serve the community because they contribute to false arrest, racial profiling, and witness tampering. Police officers have participated in many forms of misconduct. One of these misconducts includes false arrest. False arrest is an arrest that is conducted without a warrant. This also means an arrest without any probable cause. This type…

On Police Misconduct Abuse of authority is not a new idea. Existing since literally the dawn of civilization, it is easily recognized as human nature. Regardless, there has never been, and will never be, an excuse for combining power and malice. Police misconduct has been brought to the public’s attention with the relatively recent rise in availability of video recording. This analysis of police misconduct will examine cause, effect, and prevention. Causes of police misconduct aren’t regarded as…

In August of 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri an 18-year-old black man was fatally shot by a white Ferguson police officer. It started a firestorm of national and self-examination in America. There were protests against abusive police in major cities across the country, and the national government investigated. Recently Newsweek Magazine published an article titled, "15 Most Outrageous Examples of Police Misconduct in the DOJ Report on Ferguson." The author, Taylor Wofford, reported on the…

Introduction Police corruption and misconduct has been a concern since the inception of the first police force. Every workplace has individuals who commit illegal or unethical acts of misconduct. The police department is no exception. Officers are responsible for acts of corruption, excessive use of force and brutality, violations of due process, racial discrimination and various other unethical behaviors. There are certain types of misconduct that occur most often and they have a wide…

This statement is backed by the article, Women in Prison: Sexual Misconduct by Correctional Staff, which tells of research done in 1999 about how sexual misconduct is treated when it comes about. This article states that less than twenty percent of allegations are proven (GAO 1999). Sexual misconduct can be considered a lack of ethics, which are defined as “moral principles (Byers 2002.)” In the GAO article, there is research done to find out how allegations have been handled and for many of…

may feel that the police are ‘not doing their job’ simply due to their interpretation of proper policing, and/or their lack of knowledge in proper policing methods. Many times members of the public will voice accusations against officers for misconduct, when they themselves don’t realize the connotations associated with the term “Police Misconduct.” Oftentimes these accusations occur following a citizen’s interaction with an officer, an interaction in which the officer was acting rationally,…

Police conduct has been up for question in the past couple of years. This issue has come to the attention of the public eye and has started formulation of resolutions to help lower or conclude misconduct. Another resolution is to crack down and discipline misconduct when it does actually happen. A solution that often arises is involving the government by “policing the police”. Another idea was work in the community in which the development of community review boards. the idea of Government…

The work that police officers do is very complex. There are different rules and codes that they are supposed to follow in order to accomplish their job at their organization. Police officers present different behaviors while patrolling and in other areas of policing that creates many confrontations with the society as well inside their departments with co-workers and other people above them. In police departments exits different codes that police officers follow that many times create that…

been 13 officers convicted of murder or manslaughter in fatal on-duty shootings” (Ferner & Wing 2016 para 5), although the statistics for police prosecutions of crimes committed while off-duty are quite a bit higher as seen in results from a research study showed that between January of 2005 and up until December of 2007 there were “1,126 cases of off-duty police crime” (Stinson et al 2012 para. 5), the…

As part of their duties, Police have the power to arrest and the right to used a minimal or proportion force in order to carried out their duties, especially when arresting offenders (Prenzler, 2013). Sometimes, they might be required to used accoutrements such as (handcuffs, batons, capsicum spray, Tasers and firearms) to detained and arrested offenders, and also to protect themselves, suspects and members of the public from harm. However, the occupation of policing is intrinsically vulnerable…