Officer Safety: Conflict In The Police Culture

Even the justice system believes, as if they shouldn’t be convicted. “The legal system doesn’t like second guessing police officers because they know the job is hard and violent and they have to keep bad guys off the streets ” ( Stinson para. 3). For a regular person convicted of a crime they are more harshly faced then police who gets a free pass. Instead of taking responsibility of the situation, they claim they did not do anything even when there is clear evidence.

Ethics in Action: Gratuities The formal law enforcement code of ethics disapproves of a police officer accepting gratuities if they negatively influence a police officer’s actions (Hess & Wrobleski, 1997). Even though the formal law enforcement code of ethics generally disapproves of police officers accepting gratuities, accepting gratuities is a debatable issue. The reason for this is that there are both costs and benefits for both the police and the public when police officers accept gratuities. Furthermore, there is disagreement on what constitutes a gratuity. In short, police officers should not use their public office for personal gain and that they should not accept gratuities from people with whom they do official business.

The law officers was not charged for the incident, so it created a riot in Los Angeles. (Police Brutality). The final problem is there is not enough of different race working together. There was an investigation that was affected by the police officers, because of their nationality within other officers. “Additionally, the boards often found police unwilling to cooperate with their investigations due to a desire to protect their fellow officers- a phenomenon known as the “blue wall of silence”(Police Brutality.)

The Miranda Warning, or more commonly known as your Miranda Rights, is a right to remain silent, amidst other rights, given by police in the United States to criminal suspects in police custody before they are interrogated. Miranda Rights are there to provide admissibility of the arrested criminals statement in the court of law. Students should not be given a Miranda type warning by the school personnel because they are not being arrested and the principal does not have the authority since it is only a discipline matter. First off, students should not be given a Miranda type warning by the school personnel because they are not being arrested. The function of the Miranda rights are to caution people on their rights while in custody to assure their testimony is useable in the court of law.

v. Clayton, held that the police officers did not infringe Mr. Clayton and Mr. Farmer’s rights under ss. 8 and ss. 9 of the Charter as their unusual behaviour gave the officer reasonable grounds to conduct a pat down search. This case is significant to us for various reasons. First of all this case shows us the circumstances, when a police officer has the right to detain an individual without a search warrant.

The police department made a big case because out of this. I am not saying it was dumb, but what I am trying to say is that the police department could have only sent a couple police officers to the scene. This was a pressured conflict. Maddie did good by telling the police about this. The police didn’t send any duty officers that were supposed to fix everything.

The overwhelming answer to this would be absolutely not, lighting trashcans and cars on fire is illegal, so why is it not illegal to burn a flag during your “peaceful” protest? Justice William Brennan wrote the majority decision, with Justices Anthony Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and Antonin Scalia concurring. ‘Johnson was convicted for engaging in expressive conduct. The State’s interest in preventing breaches of the peace does not support his conviction because Johnson’s conduct did not threaten to disturb the peace,’ said Brennan (A history of the flag

Upwards of several students express little apprehension in respect to getting in serious trouble with authorities. However, consequences may vary in every situation, being cautious is an understatement. Surprisingly, UNT police do not necessarily come up with a contingency plan for April 20th, they just go with the flow just as any regular day. “If we believe there is going to be an increased usage on [4/20], we will be on the look out,” said UNTPD’s Community Relations Officer, Kevin Crawford. “But no, we do not take any certain precautions,” he

The state of Minnesota has laws that state you should retreat first instead of using deadly force and the only exemption to those laws is if you were cornered or pinned down and facing serious harm or death, then you would be authorized to use deadly force in self-defense. In the case of Byron Smith he was not legally within Minnesota’s stand your ground law because the teens that broke into his house did not corner or pinned him down and were not about to cause serious or deadly harm to him. In fact the law states he should have retreated first and avoid the use of any deadly force if possible and in this case that was

But respectfully, law enforcement’s duty is to protect themselves as well as the citizens. Sometimes, when using a less deadly force, fighting while trying to subdue a suspect may occur and could potentially lead to what some innocent bystanders call police brutality. Depending on the situation, police officers should know when to use force, and if it comes down to excessive force, then they will have to answer for their actions. Police brutality has no set rules or bindings in state policies. In fact, police brutality is wrong and its considered to be misconduct on behalf of the law enforcement