...decide to abuse their authority, which then leads to criminal activity. Police officers have access to “less than lethal” known as conductive energy devices, or better known as CEDs the TASER (Stinson et al., 2012). The purpose of “less than lethal force” is that police officers are more likely to succeed to getting a noncompliance individual to cooperate without fatal injury involved, much like the baton, metal flashlights (Stinson et al., 2012) or physical force however, all weapons can be used inappropriately or eventually causing death. Currently, there is not much empirical data available on the criminal misuse of TASERS by police officers although this may benefit researchers...
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...Did you know that excessive force is one of the most common forms of police misconduct?(Cato) The 1968 Democratic National Convention was a battle between the Chicago police and peaceful protesters. Violence broke out because of the Chicago police forcibly removing protesters with clubs and tear gas. Even today there is a lot of examples of police brutality. With just a short google search you can find hundreds of cases of police misconduct, specifically police brutality. The problem is not the police, but the small percent that is resorting to violence as an answer to everything. The solution to this problem is requiring the police to go under special training to teach them that violence is and should be a last resort. According to The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project “of all 1,575 officers involved in reported excessive force complaints, 56.9% were involved in cases of physical use of force which include fist strikes,...
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...Overview: The topic of police misconduct in the United States is controversial. The problem exists because of society not agreeing with decisions made by law enforcement. High profile cases like the beatings of Robert Davis and Rodney King have stirred a distrust of police among society. The general idea is that police possess a civic duty to protect and serve individuals, but like most people who hold a position of authority, their powers are sometimes abused. Society has disputed with misconduct and corruption issues for as long as it has had police officers. Through the mid-to-late nineteenth-century law enforcement has dealt with many issues of civil rights. The twentieth century saw multiple legal, administrative, and scholarly approaches to the problem. Development of...
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...Police Misconduct and its Social Impact Can Better Police Training result in a decrease of Police Brutality against minorities? A research paper submitted advocating the issues among police agencies in North America. This paper analyzes the protocol that determines the appropriate procedures for a safer community for the victimized minorities through use -of- force incidents. HSB4U1 December 11/12/2015 Summative Report Mrs. Kim By: Julianne Silva Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………Pg. 3 Chapter one: Police Issues American CCPSA Fixing Problems…………………………………………………………Pg. 4 America’s Flawed System……………………………………………………………………Pg. 6 Controlling the Police…………………………………………………………………………Pg. 7 Chapter two: Police Solutions The Debate over Body Cameras…………………………………………………………….Pg. 9 Changing Policies and Regulations...……………………………………………………….Pg. 10 Chapter Three: Community and Behaviour Police Subculture……………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Impact on Minorities…………………………………………………………………………….Pg.12 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….Pg.14 Works Cited………………………………………………………………………………………Pg.15 Appendix A: Julianne Silva Survey Summary………………………………………………..Pg.17 Appendix B-1: ………………………………………………………………………………….... Appendix B-2……………………………………………………………………………………... Introduction One of the most controversial topics in police enforcement throughout history has been the issue between racial minorities and the misconduct of police officials...
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...Ethics in Policing Darlene Freeman CRIJ 5322 Introduction This paper explains issues that shape the role of ethics in policing. Police ethics involves hard choices as well as avoiding violations of basic moral standards. Police officers inevitably face ethical issues when it comes to what’s right or wrong. The authority that police officer are given to protect the public presents the temptation to abuse the power that’s given to them. This paper will explain the rule- of-law and how it represents societal standards that define police duties and responsibilities. Police officers are given a significant amount of discretion simply due to the nature of their job. Officers are faced with many threatening situations forcing them to react quickly yet appropriately. They have the power to infringe upon any citizen’s rights to freedom and therefore must use their power effectively. One major concern with a number of discretion officers have is their power to decide when to use force or when to use lethal force (Lee, Lim, Moore, & Kim, 2013) Additionally, public perception of policing will be discussed, police brutality and due process within the criminal justice system. Accountability is one of the most important components when it comes to public perception of police officers. When officers begin to use force to control the community, citizens began to review officers as authority figures instead of protecting and serving the community. This results in a breakdown...
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...The actions of police are watched very closely. To the public, they are seen as those who protect and preserve the peace. However, there have been many situations in which victims have had to testify against a police officer because of some type of misconduct. When this happens, it takes a serious toll on the entire community. Trust becomes ruined, and in most cases the victim is left with a mental scar. Police officers have ethics that they are expected to follow. In the cases where they do not follow these ethics, they have to deal with more serious offenses. [Because of the special role that officers play in society, federal courts and professional perspectives place restrictions on an officer’s behavior on and off duty] (University Of Phoenix, 2012, p. 1). In this paper, I will explain unethical police operations. I will describe the extent of police corruption, misconduct and brutality in the United States. I will also Research two current cases on police corruption and brutality. Just because an officer wears a uniform does not give him or her the right to use his or her authority for personal gain. Officers are expected to follow certain ethics and rules just as we are. Police corruption and misconduct happens every day. A situation of police corruption occurs when an officer bribes a criminal to pay him or her in large sums of money without receiving any other type of penalty, overlooking violations of the law. There are also cases in which officers receive drugs from...
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...Ethical Issues Paper 2 There are certain rights that criminal defendants involved in the criminal justice system have. These rights are in place to ensure that criminals are not receiving a punishment that is not conducive to the crime. Sometimes though the justice system fails and innocent people are required to spend time incarcerated for crimes they did not commit, and for extended periods. There are many reasons for wrongful convictions including mistaken eyewitness testimony and suggestive lineups; false confessions; perjury by perpetrators, witnesses, jailhouse snitches, and forensic examiners; “junk science;” sloppy laboratory procedures; “tunnel vision” by police and prosecutors and failures to obtain exculpatory evidence; prosecutor...
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...Unaddressed wrongful conviction cases show the weaknesses in the U.S. justice system. This paper will touch on the causes that lead to wrongful convictions and discuss possible solutions. The main factors of wrongful convictions are eyewitness misidentification, misleading/unreliable forensics, false confessions (coerced/intimidated), witness perjury, prosecutorial misconduct, insufficient lawyering, racism and implicit bias. Since the first DNA exoneration conviction in the United States case that...
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...Factors persuading criminal justice staff conduct paper University of Phoenix Factors persuading criminal justice staff conduct paper Many things play a role influencing how criminal justice officers will act and how the actions will affect the criminal justice system and the society that they have to protect and serve on a daily basis because of the influences of their actions. In the paper, it will be discussed the assess risk, responsibility, and financial effect working together with discretionary power worked out. By staff in the criminal justice system, and What part does a civilian oversight committee have in guaranteeing authoritative forces not manhandled as it applies to policies, procedures, risk, monetary elements, and discretion. Assess obligation, responsibility, and financial effect working together with discretionary power practiced by staff in the criminal justice system. Every organization to attain and maintain, a culture of honest a more efficient model with discipline has to apply also sustained. The administrators must embrace the new paradigm with self-accountability for each staff member one of them were head managers are not free from which means. The objectives should be to obtain self-accountability rather than just making officers liable following their act of indiscretion. Even though punishing staff members, for violating a policy that includes each tradition also common sense. There are more than numerous various approaches which could...
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...Wrongfully Convictions Introduction: Each year, many people that are innocent are dished out short or long term prison term for crimes that they did not commit. These innocent people have been “wrongfully convicted”. Sometimes these wrongfully convicted charges are unbeknownst to the judge and or jury; other times, they are just wrongfully convicted due to corrupt law enforcement officers. This corrupt issue is very wrong and should be done away with immediately, which is my reason my choosing this topic. In this research paper, I plan to find reasons for wrongful convictions, the actual number, statistics, of individuals that have been wrongful convicted, and those individuals who have stepped up to make a difference in this dilemma. Although there aren’t any statistics kept by the Criminal Justice Department on the number of crimes that were recorded as wrongful convictions, research has estimated about 5% of the cases that are tried annual result in a false conviction. Since 1989, 1,241 people have been wrongfully convicted and later cleared of all charges based on evidence that they were innocent, according to the National Registry of Exonerations, a project of the law schools at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University (Clark 2013). The Michigan Innocence Clinic was the first clinic of its kind to work on non-DNA exonerations. Their work has revealed particular circumstances far too often seen in cases of wrongful conviction. These cases show us how...
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...The Benefits of Equipping the Jamaica Constabulary Force Vehicles with New Technological Means Research Methodology Introduction Corruption in Jamaica poses a potentially serious problem for civilians and law enforcements alike. It is and has always been an issue in Jamaica were persons of the Jamaican Constabulary Force (JCF) are accused of corruption. Few of which are, police man charged for reportedly solicited $10,000 in order not to proffer charges to a motorist for breaching the Road Traffic Act (Policeman on Corruption, 2010). A policeman confessed to stealing a laptop computer from a home in Hellshire Heights (Policeman Arrested, 2012). Between the periods January – September, 2011 the JCF issue a release that reviled that 34 members of the JCF were dismissed for corruption, 7 members were dismissed for corruption and 18 civilians were charged with corrupting JCF staff (JCF Anti-Corruption, 2011). These corruption statistics damages the image of the Jamaican country which in turn discourages investors, tourist and lowers the confidence that citizens have in the JCF. This literature review was done to outline the technologies that can be implementing in the JCF to lower the corruption rate in the country and how beneficial those technologies can be to the country. As such we will discuss how the society has been impacted by the process of corruption of in JCF, how beneficial GPS, surveillance cameras and mini recording devices can be in the Jamaican society...
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...Critical Reflection My experiences writing this Research-Based Action Essay where quiet useful in helping me to further understand how specific groups of people play different roles on how law enforcement is viewed, but also the corruption that is under looked in specific police departments. Addressing how police brutality has not only been a issue of the past, but is currently an issue of today. Discussing how police brutality has always exist and yet the officers who commit police brutality receive little to no criminal punishment. Situations as this go unresolved appropriately by law enforcement when police are seen to preserve the peace and only act on situations where probable cause is determined by fact. In my paper I provided information on cases where police used excessive force unlawfully such as the death of Eric Garner by Police Commissioner William from a coking or Dillon Taylor who was shot by a police officer in front of a 7-Eleven when trying to walk away from an officer. The purpose of this discussion was to inform that everyone can be a victim of police brutality. My audience, which is the Internal Affairs Unit are responsible for investigating and report such incidents to find that those guilty are prosecuted for their crimes. This course of action may result in the restoration of stability and professionalism within the police department. In my paper, I introduced current issues were police have used deadly force on unarmed suspects which court decisions...
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...Allegations of the use of excessive force by U.S. police departments continue to generate headlines more than two decades after the 1992 Los Angeles riots brought the issue to mass public attention and spurred some law enforcement reforms. On Staten Island, N.Y., the July 2014 death of Eric Garner because of the apparent use of a “chokehold” by an officer sparked outrage. A month later in Ferguson, Mo., the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson ignited protests, and a grand jury’s decision not to indict Wilson triggered further unrest. In November, Tamir Rice was shot by police in Cleveland, Ohio. He was 12 years old and playing with a toy pistol. On April 4, 2015, Walter L. Scott was shot by a police officer after a routine traffic stop in North Charleston, S.C. The same month, Freddie Gray died while in police custody in Baltimore, setting off widespread unrest. The policeman in the South Carolina case, Michael T. Slager, was charged with murder based on a cellphone video. In Baltimore, the driver of the police van in which Gray died, Caesar Goodson, was charged with second-degree murder, with lesser charges for five other officers. There have been no indictments in the earlier cases. These follow other recent incidents and controversies, including an April 2014 finding by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), following a two-year investigation, that the Albuquerque, N.M., police department “engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive...
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...Term paper Darrell Ross and Patricia Parke investigate the consequences of policing by consent decree that Darrell Ross mentions in Chapter 8. In their article, “An analysis of 42 U.S.C § 14141 the new model for police accountability”, the authors found that consent decrees in general and policing by decree have had a profound effect on public policy. They say in response to an isolated sensational incident, namely, the LAPD attack on Rodney King, Congress passed § 14141 ushering in a new model of “policing the police” without fully considering the consequences. Ross and Parke raised thought-provoking questions concerning police misconduct and accountability at a federal level rather than at the state level: Whether § 14141 represent the appropriate legal mechanism with which to address allegations of police abuse? Whether § 14141 has been or will be effective in reforming the police? According to the authors, there are several reasons for caution and skepticism: (1) federalism, (2) consent decree shifts power form the elected government to the DOJ and courts, and (3) interferes with present leadership within the department and has a negative impact among line officers. The two authors conclude that there is no evidence that consent decree out performs other remedies already available to the citizenry, and there is much evidence to suggest that the public safety is in fact adversely affected. Noah Kepferberg wrote the article “Transparency: A New Role For Police Consent Decrees”...
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...228-234 Police Corruption in India ____________________________________________________________________ Ravikanth B. Lamani1 G. S. Venumadhava2 Abstract Police as a Law enforcing agency is an important institution of that social control which existed in some form or the other in all society in all ages. Police is an integral part of the present day society. A society in the present set up cannot live and progress without an effective, sincere and honest police force. The Indian police have its roots in the ancient period and the present day police are the outcome of an evolutionary process. The bad things which it has inherited from the old system include corruption among policemen today. Corruption exists in one form or the other in the police system. Corruption has infected every sphere of modern life. It has vitiated the moral values of the society and the police force cannot be an exception. In fact, corruption of police is not a new phenomenon, but the irony is that the issue has seldom been seized by the organization with a sense of seriousness. In this paper an attempt has been made to discuss the various aspects of police corruption in India. The author has tried to discuss the various factors responsible for police corruption and suggest some remedies to control the corruption among policemen. The main objective of the paper is to discuss the extent, causes and remedies of police corruption and explain the extent of distrust that create against police due to...
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