Police misconduct

Police Brutality Police severity has had a long history in the U.S. In the beginning of policing, demonstrations of mass severity were generally credited to the poor work specialists. From the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, to the Pullman Strike of 1894, the Lawrence material strike of 1912, the Ludlow slaughter of 1914, the Steel strike of 1919, and the Hanapepe slaughter of 1924, the police would mercilessly beat striking workers. Can police brutality on the minorities be justified?…

United States established its first centralized Police force in 1838, following a century of police “watches” that consisted merely on a volunteer workforce. The city of Boston Massachusetts became the first State to modernize policing, and was shortly followed by New York City in 1845, and Albany, and Chicago in 1851. By the 1880s all major U.S. cities had municipal police forces in place (Potter, 2013). Compared to the “town watch” the new police Force consisted of four unique qualities;…

Discuss the main ways in which police officers are personally held accountable for abuses of power. Are these measures effective? Police accountability has been a widely discussed issue from the very beginning of its official establishment under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829. Through the years public trust has been of great importance, as the public is one of the main groups, which the police is accountable to. In this essay, we will focus on accountability on an individual level rather than…

has been proven that the uses of police body cameras are beneficial to all aspects of law enforcement. In the article, “Scholar Warns Body Cams Used to Show Underrepresented in Worst Light,” freelance journalist and well renowned writer Jamaal Abdul-Alim argues that the use of police body cameras will result in the reduction of both complaints against officers and police force. Abdul-Alim supports his main argument when he presents a yearlong study on the effect police body cameras have on law…

Police are committed to their duty, to serve and protect the people. Going back in history how did it all started? How the law enforcement in United States is connected to England. Back in the old days policing was different from what they are today, with the same principle of protecting the citizens of United States, police nowadays are going with the trend of the modern world to maintain the peace and fight crimes in the community, they are ready to manage and control the situations they…

law enforcement and has redefined multiple aspects of policing (White, 2014). One of the most recent technologies is police body-worn camera system, which has already received extensive attentions among media and policing executives in 2013 (White, 2014). In the United States, a body-worn camera program is widely implemented across the country and seen as one of the Metropolitan Police Department’s ”top five priorities” over the past few years (Vorndran et al., 2014). Although proponents and…

Causes of Police Corruption Police officers are meant to be seen as protectors of the peace. Lately, they have been seen as the corruptors of the peace. The ones who want to put us away, possibly for life. This has put a nonstop stress on many, who are involved with such officers. It’s not always good to point fingers, but without knowing why police officers do this, we cannot fix it. Trusting the ones who protect us is one of the biggest issues in our society. We have to assume that the police…

how people feel on the manner the police officers handle sexual assault and rape cases and how police officers feel about dealing with these type of cases. The first article is “Hundreds of officers lose licenses over sex misconduct” by Matt Sedensky on November 1, 2015. The second article is “Why victims of rape in college don’t report to the police” by Eliza Gray on June 23, 2014. According to Sedensky (2015), in a yearlong investigation of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, the…

In one central California police department, due to several investigative procedural errors on the part of police sergeants, referred to herein as supervisors, police officers of the department have received reductions in their discipline for misconduct that would otherwise warrant a sterner punishment. These supervisors are members of the same police union as those officers that the sergeants supervise. While each supervisors had received formal training regarding police supervision upon their…

is “playing by the rules.” Although many police departments have and are continuing to make collective efforts to operate within the rules, police corruption continues. With broad reporting, financial, and on-the-ground responsibilities of law enforcement, opportunities for abuse proliferate. Society has struggled with the corruption and misconduct of the police force since the very beginning. Both are abuses of police authority. Of the two, misconduct is the broadest category with three…