What Are Police Corruption And Citizen Complaints Relative To Ethnicity
Matthew Berry
University of phoenix
Ethnicity and the police part 1 outline
Tim Anderson
03/29/13
• Police corruption and citizen complaints relative to ethnicity.
To begin, police corruption is a very complicated issue to deal with from all angles. From the perspective of most law enforcement agencies these ordeals are not easy to deal with. Corruption only has one side and that is internal with an external persuasion, meaning that there may be a top notch officer who believes in everything good and has exceptional morals but being around individuals who have the power to persuade you to do wrong doings tends to occurs a lot in law enforcement. Citizens have to remember that these men and
women come from all walks of life whether it’s suburban or coming from the ghetto they are all human despite race, social background and gender.
In certain areas of law enforcement you have sectors within the organization where peace officers have formed clique’s, or even gangs within the agency. To most this may be looked at as a conundrum because they have these gangs within an agency where they are sworn to protect against certain entities. Corruption is defined as something immoral or unethical or acting a specific way for personal gain; also officers indulge in activities in which they are supposed to prevent. To put it simply it means abuse of police authority whether it happens once or numerous times it is still unethical.
A couple examples of police corruption are:
Corruption of authority: when police officers receiving free something that they are not legal.
Kickbacks: A kickback is a sum of money that is paid to someone illegally, for example money paid to an agent by a company because the agent can arrange for the company to be chosen to do an important job.
Shakedowns: agree to get bribes for not pursuing a criminal violation.
Protection: where officers allow illegal activity to ensure profit and power.
All of the above are definitely unethical and shouldn’t be allowed in any agency whether its local , state , or federal.
References www.studymode.com. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.studymode.com/essays/Police-Corruption-981781.html
University of phoenix
Ethnicity and the police part 1 outline
Tim Anderson
03/29/13
• Police corruption and citizen complaints relative to ethnicity.
To begin, police corruption is a very complicated issue to deal with from all angles. From the perspective of most law enforcement agencies these ordeals are not easy to deal with. Corruption only has one side and that is internal with an external persuasion, meaning that there may be a top notch officer who believes in everything good and has exceptional morals but being around individuals who have the power to persuade you to do wrong doings tends to occurs a lot in law enforcement. Citizens have to remember that these men and
women come from all walks of life whether it’s suburban or coming from the ghetto they are all human despite race, social background and gender.
In certain areas of law enforcement you have sectors within the organization where peace officers have formed clique’s, or even gangs within the agency. To most this may be looked at as a conundrum because they have these gangs within an agency where they are sworn to protect against certain entities. Corruption is defined as something immoral or unethical or acting a specific way for personal gain; also officers indulge in activities in which they are supposed to prevent. To put it simply it means abuse of police authority whether it happens once or numerous times it is still unethical.
A couple examples of police corruption are:
Corruption of authority: when police officers receiving free something that they are not legal.
Kickbacks: A kickback is a sum of money that is paid to someone illegally, for example money paid to an agent by a company because the agent can arrange for the company to be chosen to do an important job.
Shakedowns: agree to get bribes for not pursuing a criminal violation.
Protection: where officers allow illegal activity to ensure profit and power.
All of the above are definitely unethical and shouldn’t be allowed in any agency whether its local , state , or federal.
References www.studymode.com. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.studymode.com/essays/Police-Corruption-981781.html