For roughly the last 14 years I have worked numerous hours away from my family, gave up personal desire and gain, and attempted to provide the citizens within my jurisdiction a model law enforcement officer. Thus, I have attempted to afford protection for our citizen’s lives, property, and constitutional rights, and so has the 99% of the officers I have worked with over the years. Although we strive for perfection in our chosen profession, we will occasionally fail, but after reading what occurred in the Rampart scandal, I was left feeling nauseous and disappointed. Subsequently, the textbook states that there is a subculture in law enforcement that fosters these types of scandalous behaviors.
Consequently, academia states that the police subculture promotes loyalty to other law enforcement as vital, that the public largely hinders the prevention of crime, and that there are those whose actions deem police violence as necessary (Pollock, 2017). Moreover, within law enforcement, there are those that due to the dangers inherent in the job that one should always back other officers, even if their actions are questionable (cop code). Additionally, it is difficult not to subscribe to the premise that a serious enough crime …show more content…
For instance, Ex-Officer Ray Guevara’s brutality, coercion, and threats meet the elements of noble cause, and that individuals are either for or against law enforcement (Pollock, 2017; Rose, & Unnithan, 2015). Furthermore, Burg appears to advocate that coercion violence as justifiable if crimes are solved, and that loyalty via silence was pertinent to the cause of law enforcement (Oberweis, & Musheno, 1999; Pollock, 2017). Lastly, the actions of Richard Daley as mayor and prosecuting attorney during Burge’s period denotes the subculture elements of certain immoral actions as essential, and that a code of silence was important regarding police