Author: Farhan ifaz (Page 2 of 6)

The Measurement of Police Integrity:By Carl B. Klockars, Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovich, William E. Harver, and Maria R. Haberfeld,  Mayn2000

Heavy research has been done by the National Institute of justice by understanding the idea of police misconduct.The survey that was actually done had included opinions on punishments for misconduct and expected disciplinary actions for these officers.This research had a major impact for researchers,policymakers as well as policepractioners.   The idea of police corruption happens to be such a vast topic that there many factors behind it that hinders everything.Many of ideas of corruption comes from a reflection of moral defects that relies within a certain individual, in this case  it is the police officers.The first rule is to get a better grasp on how the corruption is established,communicated,and understood within that establishment alone .Most organizations actually prohibits such actions .Another word for this is the mala prohibita , meaning to be off duty and doing other type of business.This however complicates the problem even more.because agencies are supposed to prohibit such actions .But this so called unofficial policy is whats causing all this disruption.This policy is supported heavily yet very discreetly by the supervisors and administrators themselves.They allow the misconduct to continue and let it slide but only under certain circumstances.  By circumstances the author states it had to be limited and discreet.

I disagree with this research to a certain extent .The main reason is because this research was conducted on police officers which would make no sense because we are trying to prevent corruption.Now what if some of the opinions about the officers are actually inaccurate.What if they told us false information to throw us off.Now I am not saying they are throwing us off but it needs a little bit of common sense because we need to remember this is a whole organization we are dealing with.It states that organizations ” informally prohibits”. So that happens to be a  major turnoff for me.If this is the case why it’s nothing being done about because if misconduct is being avoided then why aren’t the supervisors and administrators being questioned .Some things that would really be helpful for research like this is to get opinions from the general population because they are the ones being affected.We need to realize this corruption is way bigger than we think they are running the system.We should be getting ideas from people on  how to deal with officers with misconduct and terrible behavior.One perfect example is the death of George Floyd and how the officer put his knee on the mans neck till the point he could not breathe.

This video mainly portrays how the city of Baltimore and their police task force had tainted many cases or otherwise frames more than 2,000 cases which resulted in multiple arrests that never should have happen in the first place .There is only so much internal affairs could do to help the innocent be free.What makes it do hard is police officers are protected by the government , state courts etc so getting involved was nearly impossible as they had their right to privacy secured.A man by the name of Shawn whiting was a victim who did time in prison although innocent he was still placed in jail.Police had suspected that he was a drug dealer not only that they had even gotten a warrant to search his home.As Shawn had claimed they had gotten a warrant under false pretenses.Police had completely raided his house and stole 20,000 dollars along with his kids video games .As all this happened Whiting knew he was being wrongfully accused however even after filing a report to internal affairs the case was not taken seriously up until 2017.The reason why this case was looked at heavily is because they started to receive multiple cases that were similar which had began to raise suspicion.As they say the evidence was not enough for the burden of proof.Soon after Whites lawyer had won the case 17 other cases that similar to whites had been reopened for investigation.My personal opinion on this is how this is absolutely outrageous how their voices are not being heard.why are these cases not taken seriously.As said in the video this case was not  taken seriously    up until there were similar reports.This makes me question how many people are being wrongly imprisoned.One reason that this is a major concern is because in the society we live in today the officers are winning that needs to come to an end.Police officers are being protected for their wrongdoings not to mention they are being granted immunity.As each day passes justice needs to be served as soon as possible because things are getting serious with the corruption of cops.When I say serious I mean cops killing their own so they won’t testify against them.So I completely agree and disagree with this video.I 100% without a doubt agree with the fact that all voices should be heard.But the thing I disagree with is the amount of officers that are being protected.This should be dealt with now as White lost his home and was left to live with his aunt along with 6 of his children