Kansas City Police Department Case Study

The role of leadership that is incorporated in the Kansas City Police Department SWAT team varies from each situation. There was a leader in the unethical actions by the three men and then there were others who were higher ranked, who were unaware of the unethical actions by the three men, but once they were made aware of the bad behavior they pursued doing a stake out to find what was going on and who it was behaving unethically. During training to become a police officer people have to go through extensive training in an academy. These three men, Bell, Sillings, and Forrest, have dedicated their careers to being a police officer and protecting the people, which means being ethical, but they did the opposite and were very much aware of their wrongdoings.
This led to an investigation to try and figure out who had done these acts and led the stake out and eventually this led to them being convicted of criminal charges, jail time and major fines. The system had failed in this situation because it was not aware of this illegal and unethical behavior for period of time that led to a number of items and amount of money not collected or found. The people in charge of these men may not have given these men the proper discipline to know that, police officers can behave immorally too. As human beings the weaknesses we endeavor can be extremely hard to overcome. According to Papenfuhs, there are three ethical dilemmas that police officers face every day on the job, the first one is when an officer does not know what the right thing to do is, in a situation, the second is when the course of action by an officer is considered to be right but not easy to do, and lastly, when they choose the wrong course of actions because of heavy temptation (Papenfuhs,