Ms. Clayton In reading your statement “According to our textbook consequentialism is actions are “right” so far as they have beneficial consequences. Actions, laws, policies are morally right to the degree that they produce some good or some useful outcome. “Actions themselves are neither inherently right or inherently wrong; rather, moral worth attaches only to what decisions and actions bring about, not directly to the decisions or actions themselves (Arrigo & Williams, 2008). That made me
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When police officers take the law into their own hands it’s an abuse of power. As citizens you have the right to feel protected and safe but then there are senseless killings happening everywhere you start to believe if the police attacks are intentional or unintentional. Furthermore, having to believe that the law enforcers who are hired for our safety make clear and sound judgments about the individual in question. However, in recent years, it is alarming to see the amount and the rate of that
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It is understandable why some police departments prohibit police officers from accepting gratuities. Two opposing arguments for accepting gratuities are the slippery slope argument which notes that taking gratuities leads to more serious deviance. The unjust enrichment argument notes that the only honest compensation for police is their paycheck. The text relays that a gift given connects the giver and receiver in a bond of reciprocity similar to a friendship. The issue arises when one of the parties
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When I first heard about Jonestown a little over a year ago, my first thought was that Jim Jones was just a mentally disturbed and paranoid preacher and his following must have been compromised entirely by gullible people. This is the second college course in which I have studied the Peoples Temple and I have learned that there were so many more dynamics at play than I ever could have guessed on my own. It intrigued me how so many people could end their own lives and their children’s lives under
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There are a number of different factors that impact police discretion. There are four general categories that include Organizational Factors, Neighborhood Factors, Situational Factors, and that also contain subcategories within them. For this paper I will be focusing on Individual Officer Characteristics and Individual officer characteristics which is influenced by an officer's age, education, experience, gender, ambition and attitudes towards their job. According to Landsman, “a survey of officers
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and college, and federal agencies. Fifty officers were employed by city police departments. Each of these seventy-two lives left behind families, police agencies, and friends struggling to come to grips with this sad reality. According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports the average age of the officers killed was thirty-eight, and their average length of service was twelve years. Among the most frequent circumstances in police killings included ambushes, traffic pursuits and being attacked while attempting
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Media. News and social media has shown police officials using excessive force. This kind of media is nothing new to the public. The media is everywhere and never gives the full story. The media displays exciting titles to grab people’s attention and posts to social media articles to get people talking. How much of the media is actually true? Why do we hear so many negative events but when something positive happens the media is nowhere to be found? The news sources have given law enforcement a bad
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Within any establishment there is always chance for corruption. Not only prison staff, whose main goal is the reformation an inmate convicted of criminal wrongdoing, are immune. Correctional officer corruption can happen in many different type of methods might be smuggling, sexual favors for inmates, or wrongdoing of inmates. There are a different reasons of motivators or for correctional officers to become involved in this illegal acts. Corruption is a repeated hap in prisons in the nation and
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(WEMY) - The 15-year-old male who called in a bomb threat at the Walmart in Horseheads has been charged with falsely reporting an incident. New York State Police say the minor is not being tried as an adult, but if he were, he would face more severe charges and not just a minor felony. Lieutenant Michael McDarby, of the New York State Police, says if he was charged as an adult, he could have been sentenced up to seven years in jail. Since the caller in Saturday's bomb threat was a minor, the teenagers
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imprisonment by violence, and both charges were felonies. The district attorney stated that if David Merck is found guilty on both charges, David Merck will serve in state prison a maximum of four years. The 45-year-old David Merck was arrested by the police last week on a felony assault, and behind bars with a bail amount of $60,000.
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