In Harlem, an increased amount of crime activity occurs due to the involvement of gangs such as “Bloods” and “Crips”. Even though there is crime activities in these two places the cultures are very different from one another. Police subculture contributes to police corruption for many reasons. In police subculture police officers do not practice a professional code of ethics they instead follow their own personal code of ethics which prioritizes loyalty to colleges rather then doing their job and serving and protecting the community (Herbert, 1998). Due to this, “cop code” and “code of silence” become a
Public returned the favor by rioting and a lot of people and cops getting killed. Fourth Principle, “the degree of co-operation of the public that can be secured diminishes proportionately to necessity of the use of physical force” instead of using the violent force to get co-operation of the public only use physical force only when it’s needed. Modern law enforcement doesn’t try use talking about it they usually use physical force when it’s not needed, this is where the disagreement form the public comes in. Fifth principle, “Police seek and preserve public favor not by catering to the public opinion but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial serve to the law” the police are posed to serve the public equal because all men are equal one race that is the human race. Police don’t pull and arrest a man because of his race black, white etc... .
The rule advocates defending their colleagues when they do an error, misbehave or commit a crime. In fact, scholars assert that this is one of the highest forms of peer pressure among law enforcing agents. The names associated with the Blue Code of Silence include Veil, Cocoon, curtain, as well as the blue shield. Due to rules, the ethics and culture of police has been questioned. Police culture refers to professionalism in fighting crime and the impartial image.
Dangers in policing are very different from those in other occupations. In policing, threats involve criminal violence,
The “Dark Figure of Crime” is the amount of underreported as well as unreported criminal crimes that society does not report to authority. In this case, unreported crimes do not make it to the statistics of official crime. One believes that some people in society are hesitant to report a crime to police for numerous reasons. These reasons can be because of the act of negative criminal behavior from one individual to another. A few common unreported crimes that deal with negative sexual related criminal behavior toward another individual are visible.
If police officers did not act with integrity, good morals, and good ethical decision making tactics then the general public would not trust them. If there is no trust for police officers with the general public this country would have mass chaos. People would not feel safe in their homes because the people (police officers) that are supposed to serve and protect them are dishonest and untrustworthy. Without police officers and other members of the criminal justice field having integrity our country would be like a third world country with all types of pandemonium, anarchy, disorder, and confusion going on. In conclusion, integrity plays a major role in our criminal justice system especially in the jobs of police officers.
What is Social Disorganization? Social disorganization is a criminology theory that suggests the reason for crime and delinquency is due to the lack of resources in communities. When resources like churches and programs for the youth are not present in the community it can lead to a lack of morals that can cause criminal activity and delinquency. Another reason for crime and delinquency is believed to be the lack of presents of law enforcement. When law enforcement is not present in a community it gives the people in the community the thought that law enforcement does not care what happens to the people in their community.
The makeup of the ethnic population in a society can have a big influence on policing as well. Policing in the U.S. started the same as it did in England. It was an informal social control in which citizens protected one another, and relied on the hue and cry and watch and ward system. These were primarily conducted in smaller areas and grow into formal policing when areas grow into larger towns were a police department was needed and established. Policing in the south was drastically different then the north.
Ethnicity and the Police Brittany Howard CJA/344 November 12, 2013 Donna Williams Ethnicity and the Police Police corruption and racial profiling is still alive in today’s society. Often police feel that they are above the law and can commit crimes without consequence. Officers are easily “taken care” of by those who do not abide by the law. This breaks the trust between the community and the police. This creates a negative opinion of police.
Generally, the police do not follow the protocol of the juvenile justice system unless it becomes necessary to actually process a juvenile. To saddle the police with yet another set of processes for juveniles would be less than productive as the patrol have so much more work to address. By the same token however we have community policing which does incorporate a level of juvenile justice. Law enforcement agencies implement several strategies when it comes to responding to and preventing crimes. One of the most recent of those many strategies is the community policing philosophy.