Interrogation Of Human Rights Violations In Law Enforcement

In the Criminal Justice system, the main goal is justice or in other words, a fair consequence to match a criminal action. An obvious, yet unmentioned underlying goal is to prevent injustice. Many times, justice prevails, and this is why our system prevails today. However, when justice fails, it is key to look at the information offered in order to better the system and to repay those that have been failed by it. One area that has shown itself as flawed is the area of interrogations though many other areas will be presented throughout this paper as well. By examining five cases involving questionable interrogation and showing other system flaws, I will enlighten others as to how our justice system handles its flaws, and hopefully I will

Enhanced Interrogation Techniques have their situational uses. One major claim is the lauded Ticking Time Bomb scenario in which the case is laid out in a needs of the many versus the needs of the one format. The premise as given by Bob Brecher is thus, “Suppose there is good reason to think that someone has planted a bomb in a public place. And suppose there is good reason to think that it is going to go off in the next two hours or so, and that it is going to kill and maim dozens of people, maybe hundreds. The question is all too real. Imagine, to bring the example closer to home, that the police or the secret services had known that bombs were shortly to go off somewhere in Bali, Madrid, Lonon or Sharm-el-Sheikh in the attacks of 2004 and 2005. But no one knows where the bomb is – except one person, who is already in custody. Naturally they have no intention of revealing where the bomb is. Maybe they have planted it themselves; maybe not. Either way, they remain silent. Should they be tortured to force them to reveal where the bomb is?”(Torture and the Ticking Bomb 1). In this scenario there is substantial moral justification for torture. Consider this, law enforcement believes that torturing the target will save

People face ethical dilemmas every day. But it is perhaps, most prevalent in the law enforcement profession. Law enforcement officers face ethical dilemmas constantly. Some of the ethical issues that police face each day are: racial profiling, officer discretion, police officer loyalty, police officer abuse, and interrogatory deception. This paper will discuss the purpose of interrogatory deception, ways in which it is used, some of the current debates over the practice, and a landmark ruling in the Miranda case of 1966 which attempted to cease the use of intimidation and coercion practices of the police.

To begin, in ‘Purely Rape: The Myth of Sexual Purity and How it Reinforces Rape Culture’ Valenti explains what she calls the “modernized virgin/whore complex”. Abstinence –only education is taught during the day and then we get exposed to things like ‘Girls Gone Wild’ at night, it’s confusing and problematic and makes women realize that they do not get to define their sexuality, everyone else does (Valenti, p. 300). The “modernized virgin/whore complex” happens because women realize that in some situations they need to act pure and in others they need to act promiscuous, according to our popular culture, and it’s not up for women to decide when it’s appropriate and when it is not. I never heard the term used before, but when I read it in this article it made sense. It is the perfect way to define what society wants from women. It is

Police interrogation and investigation techniques is an unpopular area that created tension between the public and police. Interrogation policies or procedures have been under scrutiny many a times in the past and has grown to incorporate the changing views and ideals of the public. However, the police still face criticism over their investigation and interrogation techniques from the community. Furthermore, the use of extreme or excessive force, by the police, in dealing with unideal situations is creating a rising tension between them and the community.

Police interrogation is a technique that police have used to gather information from anyone involved with a crime for hundreds of years. Police interrogations can last a few minutes to several hours. The police have a right to continue questioning the suspect until they ask for a lawyer (Kassin, 2013). The suspects’ call for a lawyer is a right under the Miranda Rights. In the process of interrogation, the police are not allowed to use cruel or any unusual methods to collect information, the law agents are trained with techniques to get the suspects to answer all the questions. However, this is not usually the case because sometimes the police go overboard in getting the suspects to answer their questions. This interrogation in some cases has led to false confessions leading to the wrong charging of the suspects. An approximate of one out of four confessions includes false confessions (Redlich, 2009). The false confessions made by suspects beg the question on how the police influence false confessions. This research will discuss the various techniques used by the police in interrogating suspects and how they misuse the systems to influence false confessions.

Alexis met a male online a month ago, and had sex with him. Law Enforcement was not contacted at the time of intake. The father (Jason) just found out about the allegations, and took the child to the hospital to get checked for STD's. It was unknown at the time of intake how Jason found out about the information. It was also unknown where the allegations took place. Alexis is getting a psych eval, per the

In this country we are seeing an increase in ethical violations in the field of law enforcement. I will go into detail about some of the main ethical issues we are seeing today and what can be done to prevent such acts from happening. When one officer is being unethical it has a huge effect on how the public views law enforcement as a whole. Many officers go undetected for a long time before getting caught, but an officer committing ethical violations will have their day it’s just a matter of time. In order to improve this growing problem we must first understand why there is such a problem in the field of law enforcement.

Law enforcement agencies involvement in inappropriate police activities include any illegal actions taken by the respective officers within the jurisdiction of their official responsibilities. Misconduct often leads to injustice and segregation. Types of misconduct range from unwarranted seizure of property, false imprisonment, corruption cases, tampering with evidence and witnesses, racial profiling, unwarranted searches, bribing legislators to maintain laws that grant officers excessive power, sexual misconduct, influence on alcohol while on duty, usage of police ID for access to concerts among other minor cases. On March 3, 1991, members of the Los Angeles Police Department following a police chase in Los Angeles beat up a young man and the outcome was a major incidence on the brutality of law enforcement officers’.

1. Partner did not use prudence when making the decision to interview the minors alone, with no parental contact and choosing not to videotape the interview/confession. Ethical decisions were not made while conducting the interview.

In the past couple of years, phrases such as "Hands up, don’t shoot" and "We can’t breathe" have been shouted from the streets. Acts of violence and misconduct committed by the police have masses of people coming together and protesting the widespread problem. However, this current issue has been around for longer than Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two recent victims of police brutality. Offences from our police have occurred and were debated about for decades, but now are being brought back anew in these tumultuous times. Though police transgressions have an infamous place in history and a big part of today’s society, some still do not see it as that big of a problem. Others think the issue is causing the stereotyping of all the cops

Police bodied mounted cameras has been a crucial topic in regards to civil and human rights about excessive use of force. Not to mention, excessive use of force has been on the rise lately which has caught tons of attention from multiple range of communities such as the African American community. The encounter of excessive use of force has grabbed many police department’s attention to change their way of reducing such act. By all means, most agencies around the world had already implemented the use of mounted cameras on their officers because it has proven to reduce use of force and fewer complaints from the community. According to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), “body cams are small, pager-sized cameras that clip on to an officer’s uniform or sunglasses or are worn as a headset, and record audio and video of the officer’s interactions with the public.” Police bodied mounted cameras is a tool crucial to whether or not this technology serves its fundamental purpose of deterring police misconduct.

There are a plethora of ethical issues with the first story but few for the second story. Starting with the first story, the first ethical issue I found was the opposition many of the officers had towards the idea of community policing. As a police officer you take an oath to serve and protect citizens and serving takes on many forms not just crime fighting. Other ethical issues that I witness was prostitution, the home owners throw eggs at the john’s car, littering and leaving trash on the ground of the home owners, the police officers lack of response and only reacting once they were caught slacking on the job. To me the biggest issue was the neglect police officer showed towards the community trying to better its self. While the department stated they had more pressing matter to deal with it was evident they more than enough resources and time to correct the issue.

Constitutionally, coercion in the provision of information crucial for any purpose is a repugnant practice. This is following the earlier mentioned distortion of information due to the use of threats that target the wellbeing of the individual in question. Moral red flags raised following interrogation procedures increase concerns with regard to ethical responsibilities. At the height of it all, law enforcement officers may fail to follow due process to the letter. This has seen increased cases of extra judicial killings where officers administer their own justice in a bid to cover their tracks. Consequently, there is bound to be increased dissatisfaction among civilians on the handling

Almost everyone who has seen a cop television show or movie has heard the saying “You have the right to remain silent”. In America, people are raised to believe that the justice system never fails, and that no matter what happens justice will always prevail, though for some people this safety net has failed them. Since the late 1980s six studies have documented 250 interrogation-induced false confessions. Police-induced false confessions are the result of multistep process and sequence of influence, persuasion, and compliance. Imagine that a solider of the U.S. military is brought in for questioning, kept locked up for sixteen hours in an interrogation room, constantly threatened with the death penalty if they did not confess to the crime, and the whole time left without representation. In 1997 this was the case for four individuals from Norfolk, Virginia held without representation and forced to give false confessions.