Police Corruption In Corrections

Weather you would like to admit or not, corruption is alive and well in daily life.. The exact definition of corruption is, “a broad term covering a wide range of misuse of entrusted funds and power for private gain: Theft, fraud, nepotism, abuse of power etc. A corrupt act is often - but not necessarily – illegal” (What is corruption). In addition, the majority of the time corruption has something to do with large amounts of money. Throughout history, humans have corrupted everything from entire governments to the minds of children.

Police corruption is a kind of police misconduct where law enforcement officers break their social contract and abuse their power for either individual or department gain. There are many forms of corruption. Sometimes, police corruption can involve only one officer, or it can involve a troop of officers in a coordinated effort. The first explanation for police corruption would be the misuse of authority.

If God can do anything, can God create a rock that is too heavy to hold? This is an example of a paradox, or a contradiction, something that the book Catch-22 is full of. The book even has some specific side characters embody this paradoxical theme, making a seemingly unimportant character have a whole new meaning. Catch-22 is a book that takes place in an Air Force base during World War II and is filled with perplexing, paradoxical moments that seem somewhat humorous to the reader. The characters in the book have many arguments that contradict each other.

BEA Project After completing the interest profiler, I was not able to locate my profession of choice. I’ve always want to be a business owner but if I had to choose a profession from the list, I would have to choose a Parole or Probation officer for starters. To become a parole or probation officer it is a requirement to obtain a bachelor’s degree in human services. According to CFNC.gov, the average annual wage is $39,280.

In the black community, there have been many questionable incidents between police officers and black citizens. An officer might approach an African American who broke the law differentially than a White American based on their own discretion. Whereby an officer would hesitate to immediately arrest a white person for breaking the same law, they would handle the arrest of a black person differently. This is problematic: Police discretion impacts the way the society views the criminal justice system by having too much range on enforcing the law.

For this assignment, I chose stone catchers. I had the opportunity to interview Warsaw’s chief of Police Scott Whitaker. This experience was very informative. Chief Whitaker and the entire police department conveyed a strong sense of community. Scott told me that his experience in the community of Warsaw was very rewording (Whitaker).

In the letter exchange by Patricia Leary and the poem from “Formula for Attica Repeats” by Mshaka, they both share a similar theme of police brutality. Leary is defending the Black Lives Matter movement in the letter, she is clarifying that it is a movement that the African-American started to campaign against violence and racism towards black people. The BLM protests in different cities against the killings of African-Americans by police officers, police brutality, racial profiling and the unfair criminal justice system. The main focus is on protests that have been created to put a spotlight on the issue of police brutality. In the same way, as the prison industrial system has failed to support people of color.

Rampart, a movie released in 2011, was set in Los Angeles in 1999. Dave Brown was an L.A.P.D veteran police officer working for the Rampart Division. Brown is a corrupt police officer, who is racist, violent, and self-centered. Many suspicious events involving Brown happen and the department gets put into a corruption scandal and everyone is pointing the finger at Brown. The first incident of corruption I noticed in the movie was when Officer Brown physically abused a suspect.

Many reasons are held accountable for why guns are unacceptable on campus. More guns on campus rises the possibility for unaccredited access to firearms by the wrong people. The chance of the wrong person getting access to a “good guy’s” gun is a larger chance than the gun being used to save student and faculty lives. Guns can be accidentally left anywhere; in purses, jacket pockets, and lawful users can be outdo people outside of campus. Professors and faculty members are not taught to handle firearm combat in a characterized environment.

It’s pretty easy to just think about solitary confinement and automatically decide that people who are sent there probably deserve it. What people don’t know is that the true horrors of the secure housing units, or SHU’s, are hidden by the comforting words spoken by the ones that are sending the prisoners there. They state that these facilities are for the protection of the guards and other inmates and to stop the growing prison gangs throughout the United States. Prison officials also try to assure people that the inmates receive mental health checks very frequently. What they don’t tell people is that a majority of the prisoners that are sent to solitary confinement are ones that have mental illnesses or that may be difficult, but are still manageable.