Depriving someone or a suspect of their rights is illegal. Title 18 of Section 242 makes acting under and color of law to deprive a person of the privilege or right protected by the Laws of the US or the Constitution (Deprivation Rights Under Color Law). This shows that the police can not keep someone from their civil rights. If people under any color of law deprives a suspect of their rights they will be consequented, and if any damage done to the suspect the consequences are worse. If any one conspires to deprive the suspect of their rights, immunities, or privileges protected by the Laws of the US or the Constitution, will be imprisoned for no more than a year or fined, if not both. If injury is caused or threats are made with a weapon of …show more content…
Most of the time in the cases it 's been one officer who violates the suspects rights, but in others there have been multiple officers. One case that was found was about the civil rights of Earl Faison in New Jersey, whose rights were deprived from him. Five Orange, New Jersey officers conspired to violate the civil rights of Earl and were found guilty (Boyd). This shows that more than one officer can be involved in depriving someone of their civil rights. During this time, in April, Earl died one hour after a false arrest for the murder of Officer Joyce Carnegie (Boyd). This caused the consequences for the five officers much worse than what they would have been. Because Earl died, Payton(34), Thomas(38), Brian(31), Paul(31), and Andrew(31) will all face a 10 year sentence for covering up the incident (Boyd). In other cases many other officers were convicted and sentenced to hard time and parole for deprivation and with falsifying reports and lying to the FBI (Criminal Section Selected Case Summaries). This goes to show that the police can not be fully trusted during investigation because even they will go against the law to get a confession or information out of
“Frequent exposure to media reports of police abuse or corruption is a strong predictor of perceptions of misconduct and supports the belief that is common.” (France-Respers 1). But unfortunately, it also brings me disheartened feelings. Recently, I was on twitter and I stumbled across a video of a young white male who was roughly about twenty to twenty-five years of age who was being handled so aggressively by about six officers while he was NOT resisting.
The police arrested Rubin Carter and John Artis because they fit the description given by Alfred Bello after the Lafayette Bar shooting. Their first right that was violated was “Detention or imprisonment” section 9 “Everyone has the right not to be arbitrarily detained or imprisoned.” John Artis and Rubin Carter were arrested for being “2 black men in a white car” as said by the policeman who detained them. The second right that was violated was “Arrest or detention” section 10 (a) “Everyone has the right on arrest or detention; (a) to be informed promptly of the reasons therefor;” Carter and Artis were not informed promptly of the reason of their detention, in fact, when they were detained both men were taken to the hospital for the surviving
Name of Case: LaChance vs. Erickson Court: U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court Parties and their roles:. LaChance, director, Office of Personnel Management petitioner; Erickson et al Responded Relevant facts: Federal employees made false statements to agency investigators with respect to their misbehavior. The legal issue(s) raised: The legal issue raised was that the respondents, federal employees were charged by their agencies because each of them made false statements to the agency investigators with respect to their misconduct.
In September of 1961, a woman from District of Columbia had an intruder break into her apartment. While the invader of the home was there, they had taken her wallet, and also raped the woman. During the investigation of the crime, the police had found some latent fingerprints in the apartment. The police then established and processed the prints. The prints were then connected back to 16 year old Morris A. Kent.
A possible concern is threatening weapons that are used too often when a person is causing a crime. For example, crimes all over the world have steered to atrocious incidents caused by concealed guns. This implies that the use of guns is taken for granted all over the world. This means that concealed guns have been the cause of a numerous amount dangers popping up around the world. However, “Carrying a concealed handgun could help stop a public shooting spree.”
Are Police Racist On April 29, 2017 Jordan Edwards, unarmed, was leaving a house party that was getting “out of hand”. He was fatally shot and killed while in the car leaving with his brother and three other unarmed teenagers. Jordan was considered a great student and he was liked by many of his teachers and classmates. This is just one of the many times police officers have fatally shot someone that was unarmed and just happened to be black.
As Americans we have the rights that we hardly ever use. We don’t feel entitled to use our rights and therefore cops can get away with whatever they want. Ethnic minorities are targeted when they do
It can be hard to prosecute a cop for these actions due to the constant state of threat a cop’s life is at while doing their job and the unpredictability of their job. An example of an case where the police’s use of force were questioned was the Wardlaw v. Pickett case. In this case a man named, William C. Wardlaw decided to sue the United States Deputy Marshals, William Pickett and Albert Crew. Wardlaw claimed that the two violated his constitutional rights by using excessive force on him and falsing arresting and prosecuting him.
Thorough studies examine that the distribution of less-lethal weapons have reduced issues such as assaults on specifically police officers, other studies examine that this is increasing the death and injuries of civilians rather than focusing primarily on the safety of officers employed for the police force. It is a growing problem in the United States with increasing health issues related to the cause of police use of force in incidents that occur regularly. It is important to consider whether these less-lethal weapons are associated with the like hood of injuries. The use of force can define a wide range of different variables of force; it is vital to assess the independent contribution of less-lethal weapons on the prevalence and incidence of injury to the suspects and officers involved. Less- lethal weapons have increased the odds of injury to suspects that may be life threatening, it is most likely essential for these officers to stick to less-lethal weapons which can be classified as OC sprays or CEDs.
October 2nd, 2002 was the start of a long and horrific three weeks in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area. People were terrified to be in the area and everyone was on edge. What appeared to be random killings, turned out to be a well-organized series of senseless shootings that took the lives of ten innocent people. After days of people being scared to death and much confusion, investigators discovered that there were two suspects in the shootings; John Allen Muhammad and his teenage partner Lee Boyd Malvo and they were in a blue 1990 Chevrolet Caprice sedan designed to terrorize people. This break in the case came when one of the suspects called the tip hotline and told them to look into a murder in Alabama, which lead to the case being
Police officers have stun guns and guns for serious crimes for when their life is in danger or someone else’s life is in danger. They are not meant to be pulled out for simple things like not wearing your seatbelt. These weapons are meant to give an officer the upper hand if someone has a weapon of their own, but if an individual does not have a weapon there is no need for an officer to pull out their weapons. In most cases when the police pull over an African American they will pull out their side arm for no reason, maybe to just intimidate the person, but that is not right and it just makes the individual more confused and angry. Some police officers are bullies and there are videos that expose officers beating and verbally harassing African American teenagers at school for fighting, they do not have any right to do that and that is not their job.
The media makes the severity of the situation much worse. In some instances, a situation is represented in way that conveys a case as deceptive. Police misconduct, in this situation, is preposterously distorted. For example, the scene one sees on television may be completely inaccurate. In the article Unpacking Public Attitudes to the Police: Contrasting Perceptions of Misconduct with Traditional Measures of Satisfaction, Miller states, “…research found that people's fear of crime was related to crime content in the newspapers they read…”( 6).
The victim is engaged in official duty such as a firefighter, police officer, teacher, health care practitioner and the like. Even if no injury is committed, just the mere threatening of an individual with a dangerous weapon can get you an allegation of aggravated assault. It is also often charged to people committing felony such as burglary and robbery, even if there is no real apparent danger. If charged of aggravated assault and proven guilty, you could be facing five years, seven and a half years, up to fifteen years imprisonment depending on the level of aggravated assault.
Both individual officers and law enforcement agencies should be held to account for their actions. Accountability includes both what the police do and how they perform. According to Petter Gottschalk Agency-level accountability involves the performance of law enforcement agencies with respect to controlling crime, disorder, and providing services to the public. (Petter Gottschalk).
This means that even the criminals, who are a part of the public, have certain rights, particularly, civil rights. Police brutality causes a major concern in today’s society in America and a resolution is imminent. These racial prejudices are rooted in America’s deep psyche to grasp its power, we must move American original sin, slavery, and its corollary the terrible fear transmitted from generation to generation of a revolt. Police misconduct can be described as any inappropriate behavior on the part of any law enforcement officer that is either illegal or immoral or both.