Misfeasance In Law Enforcement

When looking at the conduct of law enforcement officers that are deemed deviant as they relate to ethical standards and personal conduct of officers that leads to them down the road of the community demanding answers for their behavior. To understand this manner by the organizational leadership, they must understand that their different types of deviance. These types of deviance are misfeasance, malfeasance, and nonfeasance that place these officer’s ethical standard that has been put into questions by the community (Velasquez, Andre, and Shanks, 2017).
For misfeasance to take place, there must be three elements that must be met by a law enforcement officer (Chamberlain, 2014). The first one being that the is simple the person committing the act of misfeasance is that they must hold a public office with a government. The second element is that for a law enforcement officer to commit misfeasance is that they must know and willingly conduct a criminal offense. The last of these items for an officer to commit a misfeasance act is that when they are engaging said criminal offense, they must do so with the intent that shows they are violating the law and that meant to be with focused ill will.
When looking at the deviance actions of law enforcement in the form of malfeasance we first must understand that this
The first element is that the person in question did not commit the harm or criminal offense themselves and are a third party to the events, for it to meet the element of nonfeasance. The second element is that there must be a special relationship between the person in question and the deviant actions in question. The last element for nonfeasance that must be met is that there is no requirement to act or protect the victim of the deviant