Officer's Misconduct

Police has the power to put anyone in Prison especially if they are not committing anything seriously. One of the reason is because Colored citizens don’t have higher class, meaning on poverty, no wealthy jobs etc. meaning that they would do crime. War on drugs is a significant factor in the High incarceration rates for African-American.

Correctional Officers play a very vital role in the criminal justice field. Their jobs are very dangerous when dealing with inmates that are in jail and prisons. ”The

There was a case where a police officer conduct affected his job. On June 26th, 2013 a Grapeland, Texas officer was fired because of his unethical behavior. Apparently, the police officer was at a party. The police officer allowed a female at the party to wear his gun belt with his loaded gun, ammunition and Taser still on the belt. The woman was holding an alcoholic drink while wearing the officer duty rig. A person at the party took pictures of the female wearing the gun gear and posted them on social media. Once several individuals saw the pictures online, they complained to the Chief of Police. Consequently, Chief Franklin terminated officer because his behavior went against the law enforcement code of ethics. Chief Franklin said, "All of our guys understand the ramifications of being irresponsible with their firearms, with their weapons and with their position in the city " (Beames. 2013).

Police officers are given a lot of power because it is needed to help protect citizens and the community. However, police often abuse their power by the over use of force, corruption, sexual misconduct, bias based policing, and failure to maintain police ethics. (Peak, 2011)

Reforming recruit training is the most common response among police agencies attempting to deal with corruption. There is, in this regard, a straightforward link between training, competence and malpractice/corruption. Straightforwardly, the better officers are at using legitimate means, the less they will need to have recourse to illegitimate ones. Police agencies that train their officers, and provide them with the resources they require to achieve the goals of the job legitimately should find that its officers are less likely to fall into corruption or misconduct.

We hear about police misconduct case and wonder, Why don’t they do anything to stop this? Many say that we should keep the police officers’ perspective in mind. Others say that these actions are due to racism or post 9/11 paranoia. Whatever the excuse may be for these cases, there should be no need for violence anywhere. Police brutality videos go viral and reveal to the world that it actually happens and that it may happen to you too. This pervades people with fear and anger because their civil right are being violated. Riots are the outcome making the streets unsafe and chaotic. Statistics show percentage of the movements taken upon these criminal acts performed by police officers. We can put a stop to this and we will put a

What is police misconduct? It can be defined as any action performed by a law enforcement officer that is unethical by established employment guidelines, unconstitutional, or a crime with in itself. When people hear the term “police misconduct” they automatically think of a police officer using unnecessary force against a civilian. While that is a form of police misconduct it is not only form. Throughout this paper I will bring light to the many types of police misconduct that can happen in the law enforcement industry.

At some point in my lifetime, I had learned that in prison, the correctional officers are naturally very tough, to the point of abuse on the inmates. I assume this was learned from watching “The Green Mile” years ago, where violence between guards and inmates make up a portion of the plot. Conover’s

The State of Alaska Department of Corrections has specific training needs ranging in topics from the wear of the uniform to use of deadly force. Each topic has a necessity of delivery and criticality that depicts the method of delivery, time, and setting of the training (State of Alaska, 2015a; Department of Corrections. 2002; State of Alaska 2015, June 14a; Phillips, 1997). The same standards apply to the degree of knowledge delivery, retention and recall both immediately as well as over time. For this reason, there are several common delivery methods the department may use

In my opinion, most police departments and public employers (city and state) go through their civil service department which alleviates misconduct. The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) here in Louisiana hires both commissioned police officers and police support staff through the city’s civil service department. The NOPD does not have a union but does has an Integrity Bureau which investigates all incidents of misconduct (DWI) and citizen complaints (Police brutality) involving the NOPD’s police officers. However, the police department’s personnel wages, benefits and work hours are handled by the civil service department to alleviate corruption and to directly adhere to the city’s needs. In sum, when a police officer of staff member has

What I did not know was how intense their training would be. I have learned from the reality films that it does take a certain type of person to become a Correctional Officer. The duties of a Correctional Officer are very complex. I knew that their job was to supervise prisoner, but what I have learned is there is so much more than just supervising the prisoner. Correctional Officers much perform searches to see if there are any weapons, they break up riots, and they must have the ability to be firm and fair towards the inmates at all times.

Academies can be found frequently on the same property where law enforcement recruits and specialists train; including: higher level law enforcement officers, probation and parole officers (COEO, 2016). All levels of correctional trainees duration of training ranges from three to twenty weeks long according to state mandatory training hours; completion must be within six to twelve months after selection hiring (COEO, 2016). As stated by Hobbs (2012) “no longer is training a concept or a luxury, it is an absolute must"(p.8). Correctional academies utilize a blended curriculum model of: classroom, field training and physical training; closely in design of law enforcement training. Teamwork is highly stressed; working together while within jail and prison atmospheres decreases the tremendous amount of exposure to the risk and likelihood of violence occurring (COEO, 2016). Physical fitness is extremely crucial, challenging and stringent demands that recruits must acquire; consistently concentrating on meeting expectations and plus maintaining the most elite physical conditions of strength and top fitness standards, for the entire duration of their career. The abilities needed to remain in control over an inmate at all times can possibly make the slightest mistake quickly cause death or an incident of injury to a correctional officer (COEO, 2016). As a result, a major portion of training focuses on: fitness, firearms, in service, legal, and procedural components used

Throughout our study of community corrections this semester a reoccurring issues has appeared over and over. When discussing probation and when discussing parole the issue of inadequate officer training has reared its ugly head and been calculated into the current, failing, state of community corrections. It has become evident that probation and parole officers require more intensive training on how to work effectively with probationers and parolees. The question of how that should be done has come up and the answer has repeatedly been “more education”. The idea of more education sounds like a simple fix, but in reality it requires a lot of funding to send each officer to a school to receive more education pertaining to the field of

After watching the short clip of the 19 year old man running from police officers and fighting his arrest, I do believe that the officer's actions were justifiable. Under the LVMPD handbook, it provides officers with liable reasons for using force. For example, the man was cycling towards the camera crew potentially injuring them and also was heading into the street with oncoming traffic. The man was potentially going to injure himself and other motorists on the road because of his dangerous actions. Under act VI Section D, which states that "the subject displays the intent to harm the officer, themselves or another person and prevent an officer from placing the subject in custody and taking control." it was in the officers hands to use his

The facility I work is like an small city, we house approximately 4.800 inmates, in 14 different buildings. Correctional Officers enforce the