Police Using Deception By Making Up False Evidence

Over the years, the nature of policing has changed and developed drastically. Their role not only entails crime fighting and emergency response, but also social enforcement and social peacekeeping. Bound by a code of ethics, this highly demanding role asks police to remain professional in their dealings with society, and ensure they uphold the law impartially and fairly. When it comes to enforcing the law, it is important to look at the methods and approaches taken by police in order to combat crime, and whether or not they meet current ethical standards. Although this may be the case, it is also important to acknowledge that aspects of police culture such as loyalty, deception and protection of colleagues will ultimately shape the nature of approach to resolving crime, gaining helpful information and protecting fellow officers. Police officers are granted large amounts of discretion within their roles, however, when officers deliberately abuse this amount of discretion and become display misconduct, it becomes challenging to limit discretionary authority of police officers because of the frequent circumstances they encounter where deception may provide highly constructive outcomes. Throughout this essay, methods used by police officers including entrapment, wiretapping and planting of evidence will be assessed for their strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, the ethical standards of these methods and approaches will be assessed as to whether or not they prove as ethically

An innumerous amount of people in Argentina are lying in hospital beds and clinics, wounded from the gunshots fired from federal police officers, rubber bullets being used to scare off the protesters, not kill them. Killing them would be too easy. In the streets, there is a mix of sounds ringing, showing the fear and anger within the air. Crying mixed with bold shouts of protests; voicing their need for police brutality to end. In the streets, young and old people are also coming together to fight against the corruption in the government. And with all this chaos and “war in the streets,” the television has yet to cover it. However, it is not their faults for the federal police and government are blocking the opportunity for media to contain

In the mid to late 1900’s the code of silence was introduce to the police officers, The police officers live and work under a code of silence called the blue code of silence in the United States. The blue code

Law enforcers are supposed to behave in an ethical manner in order to achieve justice to the community. Where some of the police officers complete their duties ethically, others are caught in ethical misconduct that blurs their vision of administering justice. Several unethical practices have been noted in the course of duty of most police officers, and all corners of the world have their police officers affected by the practices (Klockars, Ivkovic, & Haberfeld, 2004).This paper looks into two most prominent and persistent ethical concerns in police systems, in the USA and worldwide.

Renegotiation of reality occurs when, by virtue of the institutionalized process of police interrogations, the suspect perceives that his initial reality holds no value to the interrogator or to the outcome of the interrogation, when he lacks agency to defend his reality, and when there is no other option. In this paper, I will illustrate how each of these factors facilitates false confessions and will use the Norfolk Four case as my vehicle for exploration and analysis.

Isn't it amazing hiw quick people can lie in a matter of seconds? People of the law, people who supposed to be truthful and putting their life on the line for others are lying. These people of the law have become hypocrites, it's been put in our heads that we should never lie to the police or anyone of the law because they will help us but those same officers can lie to us. Officers will do anything to save their job and fellow officers jobs as well if they think what they did was justifiable or even if it wasn't because it would be a civilans words agasint multiple police officers word.

I completely agree with you Lillie on how all the people that listened to the phony police officer were being obedient.

As mentioned above, there is very minimal research on judges, police, and jurors on their opinions and beliefs in the area of false confessions and police interrogations. These key characters in the legal system are important factors to produce more information in the area of false confessions as they are working in the legal system and being the first to witness wrongful convictions. However, one recent study has shown that judges have the same biases as the mock jurors (Lassiter, Diamond, Schmidt, & Elek, 2007, p. 225). Thus, this information can lead to many controversial questions regarding whether or not judges are aware of the biases that occur in their own courtroom? Are judges being unaware of the tactics used in interrogation rooms?

I would like to develop a stronger understanding of what is meant by J.Goldschmidt and Anonymous in Policing & Society with the statement " research on police perjury is largely 'impressionistic and anecdotal', depends ultimately on the perceptions and judgement of the investigator through limited firsthand exposure', and does not provide needed information on the causes and motivations of officers engaging in this behavior"(116). My attempted understanding is that it is difficult to investigate police perjury because the testimony of a police officer is their personal account of the situation and their subjective reaction to the incident in question. Since the investigator can be influenced by the personal account of the occurrence,

Within the courtroom many individuals have pleaded guilty because they know in the back of their minds that the chances of the jury believing them over a Law Enforcement officer is slim to none. seriously, who are you to likely to believe? A person in a prison jumpsuit or a professionally dressed and groomed officer who swore to god to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. looking back with over a hundred of cases where officers lied, do you really believe police are necessarily more trustworthy than any criminal? In my opinion I don't think so. It's not the fact that police are inclined to confabulate, but I think they do have the incentive to lie. In todays society where numbers of those incarcerated is enormous, police should not be

Running Head: SHOULD POLICE OFFIERS WHO LIE BE TERMINATED AS A MATTER OF PUBLIC POLICY

According to Burneylawfirm.com innocent people do lie to cops as well and confess to crimes they havent done. This doesn't happen often but if it does it can create greater conflict that is illegal called “Obstructing Justice”. The act of obstructing justice is basically interfere with federal justice. This relates by having the innocent person impede the the actual suspect. “Police can lie to suspects, as long as the lies don't force the suspect to believe they have no choice but to agree to what the police are saying.”(Police Chief

In society we call upon certain individuals to help us in times of need or urgency. Sometimes these individuals are police officers. As a member of society, I would like to be able to call upon the police in a time of need since we expect them to protect and serve our community. However, some situations can expose corrupt police officers partaking in unethical behavior while protecting and serving the community. In this paper I will discuss the unethical behavior of a group of police officers from Baltimore, Maryland. This is an ongoing investigation that keeps producing more evidence of other officers partaking in unethical behavior.

I agree that it is easy to jump to conclusions when we have limited information, and that these two variables do not cause the other. Multiple variables can impact if cops commit crimes and if criminals are bolder when more police are on patrol and this situation requires further investigation into the community and into the police force to determine those variables. Conducting research into the reports is a great idea, and determining the level of severity of the reported incidence would be meaningful. Are the reportable events serious? Are they nuisance complaints? This scenario leaves us with many questions to be asked.

We have the emergence of programs such as ‘Mr. Big’ and fake pawn shops. Mr. Big was an undercover sting operation where an undercover officer pretends to be the leader of a big criminal organization. The suspect in question is asked by “Mr. Big” to prove their worthiness to the criminal organization by confessing to offences they are being investigated for by police (Mr. Big Video). Mr. Big operations were later found to be inadmissible evidence in a 2014 Supreme Court ruling (R vs. Hart) since it “shocked the conscience” of the community (Lippert Lecture: Oct 16th). Further concern was raised when it was believed that the program led to false confessions, tunnel vision by police, and targeted vulnerable peoples; additionally, in 2017, research conducted on 120 people found that the shocking rate increased if police tactics seemed unusual and breached the rights of suspects. This calls for investigation into other questionable practices where people may be vulnerable.