Officer and Nonjudicial Punishment

Officers of the law are faced with decisions daily. Subsequently, individuals outside of law enforcement are targeted, either justly or unjustly. In a given scenario, a young man, Lance Lascivious, was with his girlfriend, Sylvia Symmetry, in front of a vacant building that seemed to be freshly spray painted. A police officer Sam Salacious and his partner decides to question the young African American man because he is a known trouble maker. The girlfriend, however, is the daughter of a Caucasian neighborhood convenient store owner. Unlike Symmetry, Lascivious is from a broken home, with a father who is rumored to be in state prison and a mother who is on public assistance. Despite familial

The main idea and subject of this article is that parents with unjust harsh punishment techniques cause present and future issues for their children. The article discusses poverty stricken families have harsher techniques in parenting when compared to middle and higher classes. “...parents who live in poverty treat their children harshly more often, researchers say” (Inquirer 1). These punishments may have more than just some tears or a temporary wound. “When parents are too consistently harsh, their children's brains release stress chemicals…these chemicals are released when a person is in danger. These chemicals are toxic, or poisonous, to developing brains.

An officers’ job is not all guns and glory like it is perceived in movies and high crime television shows. What typically happens in a life of an officer is not as action packed as people tend to believe it to be. There are plenty of roles that come into being an officer. In my senior year of high school, I took criminal justice and during the semester, my teacher asked officers to come in and tell their jobs description and what a typical day is like for them. One officer came in with a bunch of tech gear worth thousand of dollars. She explained to us that she spent most of her time in front of a computer catching criminals online. Even though the roles of an officer can be different it does not mean that being an officer is not a

After reading the article, I believe each incident discussed, in the article, did require law enforcement. However, not all the incidents warranted excessive force, to shoot an unarmed or a mentally ill suspect not exhibiting a threat to the police or public. Contrary to popular belief, not all police officers’ break the rules or violate his/her oath of office. The public and society loves to be the judge and jury in cases involving police shooting and excessive force. Even when police officers follow the rules and the use of excessive force is justified, the public still places the blame on the police. We as a society have closed eyes and ears when justification is upheld in the court of law. I believe some communities enjoy convicting law

The use of force and discretion used by officers has a large influence within real-world situations. Police discretion, by definition, is the power to make decisions of policy and practice. Public servants, such as police officers, hold the discretion on how to enforce law, when it needs to be enforced, and the use of force needed to enforce it. Police use of force, defined as acts that threaten or inflict physical harm on suspects (Terrill, 2003) has been an important topic of research since it was first argued to be a defining characteristic of policing. “Firearms, batons, and other forms of force (e.g. impact munitions) are likely to cause serious bodily injury or deaths have long been the traditional weapons of choice by police officers to accomplish their objectives (Fredrick, Kaminski, Cooney, & Sevigny 2014).” However, these are the exact situations that have caused groups such as police practitioners, policy makers, various human rights activist, you name it, to raise concerns regarding the serious injuries and fatalities resulting from the use of force.

Abstract “Police misconduct and corruption are abuses of police authority. Sometimes used interchangeably, the terms refer to a wide range of procedural, criminal, and civil violations. Misconduct is the broadest category. Misconduct is “procedural” when it refers to police who violate police departments rules and regulations; “criminal” when it refers to police who violate state and federal laws; “unconstitutional” when it refers to police who violate a citizen’s civil rights; or any combination thereof. Common forms of misconduct are excessive use of physical or deadly force, discriminatory arrest, physical or verbal harassment, and selective enforcement of the law.”

Officer Jackson went forward after being sworn in he sat down in the witness chair.

Discretion of a police officer is the subject I would like to tackle. In this paper I will discuss the issues I have with the discretion, the problems with these discretions I have, and how some officers may use discretion to their advantage. By the conclusion of the paper the reader will be educated on the subject of discretion and the issues facing it.

Two key areas of state-organised responses to crime are policing and sentencing, these both play a role in how the criminal justice system works. This essay will provide a critical comparison between the two and how the policy shifts within them have been influenced by both populism and managerialism. On one hand, populism is described as “existing wherever there is an ideology of popular resentment against the order imposed on society” Shils (1956). Thus policies based upon populist influences focus on common-sense conceptions of crime. They have emotional and expressive responses, due to the fact it is mainly based around public protection and the idea that the public must be heard (Garland,2001). On the other hand, managerialism is “A

Police officers have a certain code of ethics they must follow to perform their jobs and police misconduct and corruption are abuse of police authority. Misconduct is "procedural" when it refers to police who violate police dept rules and regulations; "Criminal" when it refers to police who violate state and federal laws and "Unconstitutional" when it refers to police who violate citizen's civil rights. Law enforcement officers are expected to uphold the laws regarding due process, search and arrest and discrimination as well as other laws.

Many police officers have been at a crime scene of an officer involved shooting and this can be a very stressful time with emotions running high. After the incident has calmed down, the involved officer starts to question the decisions he has made in reference to his actions. As I witness a fellow officer alter a crime scene to slant the evidence in his favor, the subsequent decision I make will involve an ethical dilemma. Do I support the decision of my fellow officer and not say a word about what I have witnessed or do I speak up and report misconduct of the other officer?

It’s hard to believe that just a couple hours ago my friends and I were hanging out at the park, and now we are all sitting at a police station being accused of assaulting, raping, and nearly murdering a woman that my friends and I have never interacted with before. The angry officers who are currently interrogating my buddies are searching for some deeply needed answers to this newly arisen case and are showing no restraint to solving this case immediately for honor and recognition, rather than justice and prosperity.

Soldiers that were younger, were somewhat jealous of the older soldiers, because they already had established things in their lives. Things, like family, jobs, farms, things that, they could return to that were normal. The young soldier did not have anything to return to, and felt that because he was so traumatized from the war that he would never become normal again. The low ranking soldiers often disliked the officer’s that are over them for many reasons. Some of the reasons are that they felt that when you give one person authority over another, that this can led into that officer becoming a bully. Often that Bully has the power to order a soldier to do humiliating things that has no good result for an outcome. An example of this is an officer,

I totally agree with you Mariah, that whatever options you choose it will always lead to that officer getting punished. Also I agree that it is important to maintain good relationships with you colleagues as they are the one who will back you up when needed, just the way we saw in the documentary everyone was there to help even the officers who were off duty came for help,

(c) impose any other lesser punishment as he deems just and fit, and where a punishment of suspension without wages is imposed, it shall not exceed a period of two weeks.