Police brutality has been occurring since the idea of a police officer was first brought up. Officers have found many holes through the law enforcement system. This brings upon many types of misconduct and excessive force. Unfortunately, police officers are not usually held accountable for their brutality. “The Incentive Program, or the method of police chiefs using promises of contraband going to sub-departments that lack the money in the budget, gives officers more incentive to not only plant evidence to make an entire estate contraband, but it also lets them rationalize lining their own pockets” (White).
The work that police officers do is very complex. There are different rules and codes that they are supposed to follow in order to accomplish their job at their organization. Police officers present different behaviors while patrolling and in other areas of policing that creates many confrontations with the society as well inside their departments with co-workers and other people above them. In police departments exits different codes that police officers follow that many times create that police misconduct and police brutality stay under the rug, without been penalized. In the movie Fort Apache the Bronx it portrayed how police corruption, misconduct and unethical behavior were part of their daily work just because they followed certain codes
The first thing that needs to occur is a public apology by both officers and suspension from active duty while a thorough Internal Affairs investigation is conducted. Additionally, Officer Taylor and Officer Zavala will undergo remedial training in de-escalation techniques, verbal communication techniques, and the use of force continuum. If their behavior was to go unaddressed then it has the potential to further hurt police and citizen relations in that community. According to Davids (2014), “... improper conduct itself represents an abuse of the public office that is held by the person concerned — it violates both the public trust that attaches to the holding of public office and the integrity that is expected of those occupying such positions” (p. 90). In addition, the police department will be looking into getting a federal grant for the distribution of body cameras and tasers for all patrol officers.
In Liz Addison’s rebuttal to Rick Perlstein’s comment that “college as America used to understand it is coming to an end” she argues that the quality of college is not determined by the amount of years and it still matters just as much as it did before. She uses personal anecdotes and a sense of ethos to gain her readers’ trust and reach their emotions. These strategies assist in proving that her claim is credible. Addison talks about her college experience and how community college compares to a four-year college. Her goal is to persuade her readers that community colleges have great value in preparing students for attending a four-year university.
Nowadays some police officers continue to abuse their authority which makes the community disappointed and confuse whether or not to trust a police officer. Everyone as a community expects for a law enforcement career employee to keep us safe and away from harm. Police officers should not be wasting their time with innocent citizens, if they have to use force on the criminal they must do it in a proper way, and lastly there must be a fair case. On August 9, 2014, and incident was reported in Ferguson, Missouri.
In this case the police integrity is questioned inside the walls of Men’s Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, CA. The ones that does the misconduct are often referred to as the bad apples. The scandal does not only involved one but 18 police officials, this must have start from one police officer doing a little misconduct and continues to spread that caused them to get involved in one of the biggest scandal that happened in Criminal Justice history in United States. Are the police officers only protecting the public and doing their duties when they are being seen by the public eye? Behind close doors when the abuse and misconduct is being tolerated and covered up by the high officials, what kind of police integrity they still
The author does a good job at pointing out how police officers are portrayed by the public. Many people, including myself, believe in what the media say and how they explain these stories. But in reality, sometimes these stories are twisted and manipulated to get attention. News writers and journalists do it for attention. In this book we look behind the scenes in a way.
The main example throughout the documentary was the “rotten pocket” example that is used to describe a corruption in the prescient where more than one officer is corrupt, and are cooperating to fulfill this illegal act. In the documentary, Michaels partner described how everyone, even up to the captain was corrupt and in on their ring. This is a big problem within police departments since other officers will lie to protect their own, instead of doing what is in the best interest of the station, and the criminal justice system. Many programs like the early intervention systems and the mixed approach to police accountability The main goal of these programs being implemented, is to protect the agency from double-crossing officers and protect the
The key players of a criminal justice system comprises of both private and public actors such as private defense attorneys, bail bondsmen, defendants, private agencies who offers supervision, treatment or assistance to the criminals (Sutter, R.E, 2010). It is no secret that everyone in the criminal justice and law enforcement community is basically living in a fish bowl. Every move made is being watched by the public and is publicizing and scrutinizing by the media. Unethical behavior by the criminal justice community will never go unnoticed; we hear daily report of the rouge officer engaging in unethical behavior, shoplifting, prostitution and many other illegal activities with little or to no consequences. It is of utmost importance that the community that has been chosen to serve and protect is also an expert in ethical practices and moral judgment.
The national opinion of police officers has gradually shifted from one of deference and prestige into one of public suspicion and fear. Police brutality and misconduct against American civilians are the catalysts of this shift, transforming a once highly-revered group into a highly-feared one. As the number of police cruelty occurrences continues to rise, so does the nation’s distrust of police. Citizens have begun to feel threatened by the very men and women in blue who are supposed to be neutralizing threats, not becoming them. Americans are calling for the end of this nationwide epidemic of police misconduct and are refusing to cower in terror from the officers who are supposed to “value human life and maintain a higher standard of integrity
As civilians we need to realize that police are just doing their jobs and sometimes there is someone who abuses power, but to then say the whole law enforcement agency is bad, is like saying just because there is a spot of mold on cheese that the entire thing is no good. Just like cheese you get rid of the small problem and things are okay. We as a group of people that have to listen to law enforcement must respect and obey the rules and orders they give us. Not try to hurt them or get them fired because we think that they did something wrong, without looking at everything that we did up to the issue. Police want to be your friends and don’t want to hurt you, but if they have to get to a point where they have to take further measures than normal then they will.
Officers abuse their power and most of the time get away with it which is not right, they are figures that the public trust to enforce the laws and keep them
According to www.ncjrs.gov the accountability of individual police officers is a fundamental issue for police executives. Police officers are the public officials that society has authorized, even obliged, to use force. Ensuring that police officers use that warrant equitably, legally, and economically on behalf of citizens is at the core of police administration.
Police brutality will be an issue until a solution is created. Many individuals are victims of this form of assault on daily basis. The liberties held by law enforcement are challenged each time they perform their duties. Police officers should abide by the same laws that each citizen is expected to abide by. Although police officers are granted with the right to determine laws as constitutional, civilians are sometimes treated in ways that are beyond unlawful.
On the other hand, there is that amount of people who believe if the victims really did do something so terribly wrong, they deserve the punishment they receive. This can be a very touchy subject to talk about since there are so many viewpoints on police brutality and corruption, but there are some officers who are getting away with abusing their power. Police corruption can be used in many different ways, but the most common ways are where the police either abuse their contracts as officers to gain power for themselves in the department or for personal gain, like bribery or officers using the evidence taken for themselves. Extortion is also a problem in the system where officers use their power to threaten someone in order to get ownership of property or money. In one case, Enfield officer Matthew Worden was accused of using excessive force, meaning that while the suspects
