Essays on Code Of Silence

Abstract

Over the past years, the criminal justice system has experienced both praises and criticism involving the manner in which various officers enforce law and order. While most officers strive to ensure sanctity and order prevail among all equals, a section of the officers overlook the art of humanity and apply undue force to innocent and suspected individuals. Unfortunately, the blanket of corruption shields the officers from prosecution in the effort to safeguard the exposition of the inner affairs of the police culture. Corruption broils police brutality and individual victimization with unwarranted allegations as a weapon to silence their sufferings. ...

Introduction

There have been concerns regarding police conduct for years. Therefore, the managerial departments have been working hard to educate the cops about ethics. Unethical behaviors of police officers can subject their agency with civil litigation. Civil lawsuits come in many forms such as racial discrimination, age discrimination, sexual discrimination and religious discrimination. The organization will, therefore, have a hard time curbing this kind of lawsuits. The media will also bring down an agency particularly if a police office has violated one's civil rights (Barry, 1999). The public will watch the news and lose their confidence in the organization.

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Introduction

The police subculture is an importance and necessary concept that provides an insight into the police attitudes and behaviors. The police play a crucial role in providing law and enforcement and are therefore required to maintain high ethical standards within their working environment. Therefore, the police culture ensures that police has ethical attitudes and behaviors so that they can effectively protect the rights of the society. The police subculture perceives the public as untrustworthy, hostile, potentially, violent, and this subsequently requires mutual support, secrecy, and unity to help the police cope with such environment. As a result, the police subculture was ...

Virtual City Police Department. Case Study

Nowadays the Virtual City Police Department face several significant problems. The point is that if the problems are not fixed, the Virtual City citizens will suffer because the level of crimes will increase. This report is aimed at outlining four major problems and finding solutions on them. The main problem of the Virtual City Police Department is unqualified personnel. The point is that until the mid-1990s every person who had graduated from school and got a certificate could become a police officer in the Virtual City Police Department. However, in the 1990s the situation has changed a bit: college education became a ...

Blue Code of Conduct and the Use of Force

ETHICS 2 Blue Code of Conduct and the Use of Force

Introduction

Ethical conduct is central to effective policing. The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics serves as a compass for the ethical treatment that officers of the law should bestow upon others. All police officers are given proper training and education regarding the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics, and additionally, swears to uphold this sacred code among all others. However, the emergences of police sub-cultures have caused police officers to undermine this code of ethics. - The Blue Code of Silence in Policing The Blue Code of Silence, ...

Ethics is a moral philosophy that deals with the rights and wrongs of how we live. The study of ethics is dived into three branches: meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. Meta-ethics deals with the literature and interpretation of ethical terms (Close, & Meir, 1994, p. 134). The other branch, normative ethics deals with behaviors and standards of conduct. Applied ethics deals with moral issues that arise especially in professions such as law. This is therefore the branch that is referred to when dealing with issues related to justice and criminology (Close, & Meir, 1994, p. 145). On the ...