Terrorism, Stigmas and Police Ethics

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Terrorism, Stigmas and Police Ethics An Assignment Submitted by Name of Student Name of Establishment
TERRORISM, STIGMAS AND POLICE ETHICS Terrorism, Stigmas and Police Ethics Identify and describe ways that terrorism has impacted the police mission in the
U.S? The events on September 11 declared to the whole world about the seriousness of the terrorist threats. It added new responsibilities among all departments of law enforcement. New homeland security obligations for police included: coordinating security at the state level; collecting, sharing and analyzing suspicious data; protecting key assets and vital infrastructure; securing the sea, air ports and all nations borders; cooperating with federal and local homeland securities; new tactics and systems training, studying modern high-technology equipments (Lashley, 1995). Describe disagreements that exist regarding the appropriate law enforcement behavior to fight terrorism and maintain personal liberties? Some of the methods that are used in the US prison are coercive and undermining. The prisoners are suspected of terrorism relating crimes are unfair treated with violating their civil and human rights. The other disagreement is about the period of time required for suspects to be put into a trial where their guilt or innocence could be determined. The suspects have been sometimes waiting for years before their trial. What role does social stigma play in police ethics? Social stigma depends on the relationship between countries. Difference in ethnicities or creeds also has an impact on the public opinion in relation to strangers. Law enforcement officers are susceptible to common public opinion, so they demonstrate the same prejudice and unfair attitude. Especially, after September 11, there is suspicion and vigilance towards people of other ethnicity; members of other religions are being harassed indiscriminately.
TERRORISM, STIGMAS AND POLICE ETHICS
Are the ethical forces behind police corruption the same as those involved in police abuses of force? Police officers swore to observe and follow The Law Enforcement Code of Ethics. Therefore, any violation of the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics is a law violation. Any misconduct of the authorized officer is both violation of the law and unethical act. The man, who considers that he entitled to use force, can also decide that he entitled to abuse power. Therefore, police corruption and abuse of force is the same. Identify 4 components of police corruption within the criminal justice field, and describe the strategies used to control this corruption. The components of police corruption can be following: External Corruption (bribe or shakedown), Protection of Illegal Activity, Theft at Opportunity (for example, a narcotics department discovers money and drugs, and police officer misappropriates some of them), Internal Corruption (illegal agreements within a police department) (Ford, 2000). Controlling police misconduct has two main tasks: to prevent misconduct from happening and to eliminate if misconduct took place. External and internal are two general approaches of police misconduct control. External approaches involve other agencies, so they include: organizing special investigations and watchdog committees; using the mass media to disclose corruption; rising citizen involvement, improving the political environment. Internal approaches include: reinforcing the police leadership; creating appropriate policies and procedures; improving on administrative control; expending internal affairs division (Crank, 2010). Discuss individual conscience and police assignments using specific examples. How can training prepare would be police officers for the ethical dilemmas they will face? Individual conscience is the indicator of individual responsibility. However, one
TERRORISM, STIGMAS AND POLICE ETHICS concept of one persons responsibility may be different from anothers. Individual conscience can be a protection from unreasonable orders and attitude, but can be a consequence of superfluous kindness, loyalty or naivety. There are examples when individual conscience saved lives and reputation. However, there are examples when
insubordination caused injuries, losses or, even, casualties. The ethical training can help the police officers to distinguish correctly right thing to do from wrong thing to do. Training allows applying the ethical knowledge in a lifelike scenario and discuss consequences. Everyone benefits from integrity and ethics training in the law enforcement departments. Police officers should be prepared to respond and react appropriately in real life situations (Delattre, 2006).
TERRORISM, STIGMAS AND POLICE ETHICS References Delattre E. J. (2006). Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing. (6th Edition). American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. Ford J. K., Davies M., Carter W. P. (2000). Government Ethics and Law Enforcement: toward Global Guidelines. Praeger Publisher. Westport, CT.
Lashley R. D. (1995). Policework: The Need for a Noble Character. Praeger Publisher. Westport, CT. Crank J. P., Caldero M. A. (2010). Police Ethics: The Corruption of Noble Cause. (3rd Edition). Anderson Publishing.

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