Police Corruption: A Perspective View Into the Definition‚ Cause‚ & Harm Randy Botelho BSLS Capstone‚ LS498-01 – Unit 9 Professor Odim December 17‚ 2011 Thesis Statement Corruption in law enforcement is not victimless and creates a negative perception of the United States legal system. Introduction There are few professions in the United States that are entrusted with protecting society’s safety and system of laws that have been established throughout the course of American
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Police officers are permitted to use deadly force while in the field if it is in defense of self and others. Recently the media has focused in on the police’s use of deadly force on African-Americans. Some high profile cases involve those of Walter Scott and Michael Brown. These are both cases in which police officers used deadly force on African-American males where both suspects were unarmed. Scott was killed by a police officer after being stopped while driving his car. Scott flies the car
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Every day police officers are granted a vast amount of authority including the right to use force to apprehend citizens who are not abiding by the law‚ police are also given the right to be able to defend them self when their life is in danger‚ just like any other human being. Police may have to use force in some given situations to stay safe. The citizens of the community in which the police officer works in must be able to trust that the officer will use the power they are granted in honorable
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy corruption is defined as the abuse of power by a public official for private gain. Police corruption is the abuse of power by a police officer for their own personal gain. Police officers become corrupt mainly for monetary gain because most feel that police officers do not make enough money and they want to make more. Police corruption can be costly to society and it can even violate the rights of society. Police corruption can show favoritism to some and unfairness to others
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and discretion in police work produces great potential for abuse. Police corruption has been a problem in American society since the early days of policing. An ancient natural tendency of human beings is to attempt to placate or win over those in positions of authority over them. This tendency is complicated in today’s materialistic society by greed and by the personal and financial benefit to be derived from evading law. The temptations toward illegality offered to police range from free
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POLICE ETHICS & MISCONDUCT AS RELATED TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK Planted Evidence Ethics are a human-made construct‚ a code of conduct established by humans in a certain culture‚ time and place. When it comes to law enforcement‚ ethics‚ or conduct of police officers‚ are to be those already established by humans who invest in police officers the official capacity to see that others follow them. When police officers do not follow the established code of ethics‚ they are typically guilty of
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Police Administration Newspaper article on man beaten to death in Cincinnati 01/18/2013 I picked this article because it’s a perfect example of police misconduct have to do with Police Administration‚ and I also thought it was interesting. On the day it occurred a man name Nathaniel Jones was outside White Castle passed out when employees called 911 to Report it. So the police arrive on the scene‚ and it was said that Nathaniel was being irate. Several police than started beating Nathaniel
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Gender inequality in the Police Force on which covers all the police jobs‚ police officers and detectives‚ law enforcement officers‚ inspectors‚ These are some included and work to protect‚ gather information‚ serve and show situations. Police and detectives are always investigating and ready for the worst‚ These Police jobs are into people who break the law r create “bad” situation or warnings.There is a time when police officers only make reports which are processed and deal with paperwork. People
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“We’re not anti-police‚ we’re anti-police brutality” This a quote by an American civil rights leader and former White House adviser‚ Al Sharpton. The police are using lethal force more often against innocent citizens even though some do not realize it. It becoming a massive problem in the United States and there has not been too much to help prevent the issue. Instead‚ when people try to get justice for the innocent victims‚ they get hate and told that they are just creating more problems. This is
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and the discrimination faced by lower class citizens ignores the basic rights that every human is entitled to‚ leading to the belief that society has persistently failed in their hopes of creating an environment which induces equality. In the police force‚ the assumptions and beliefs of the officers have an effect on the way that they perform their job as well as how they act on the field. The fact that racism has been demolished
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