Police Power In Achieving Justice In The Law Enforcement System

Police : Can investigate/prosecute any crimes that have been committed and secure any evidence, to support victims, raise awareness of crimes.

Within the criminal justice system, officials abuse their power. The officials of the justice system have a duty to protect and perform their duties with unbiased decision making. The abuse of power jeopardizes people’s lives who are not able to sustain oneself and their families. Some people do not understand that poorer people find themselves in jail more and once a person is released, that person is subjected to return to jail for the amount of money owed to the state. There are many obstacles for the poor, especially those of color. People of color are treated unfairly in the justice system, from the arrest, the sentencing, and the release. The criminal justice system is supposed to be just but that is not the case. The criminal justice system allows for the police, public defenders, and judges to bend the laws and not be punished for their actions or that apologizes can fix the wrong that has been done. This paper will discuss the abuse of power from the justice system and the solutions to rectify the damages.

Police accountability has been seen in the forefront of the criminal justice system much more nowadays, compared to the past. Mainly because of technology. With the use of body cameras and cameras inside police vehicles, their every encounter is now captured on surveillance, which is a useful and wise idea. If I was a police officer I would want video surveillance to capture my encounter with someone. The reason being is to protect myself. We have seen how the media change stories around and make police look like criminals. Citizens look at police officer 's as if they are not human and they’re not able to make a mistake. When police officers are sworn in, they take an oath to be held to a higher standard than an ordinary citizen. However,

When we think about rights, we also must think about the safety of the officer and everyone else around at the time. If a person is a suspect in a serious crime such as murder, then I don’t feel that individual’s rights should outweigh the rights of the officer. I believe in most cases we must think about individual’s rights per the Constitution, which protects individuals from certain things like illegal searches, but at the same time the officers who are dealing with these individuals concerns are valid as well especially in an

Criminal justice system has three main subsystems: police, courts and corrections. Each subsystem has its particular duties, but they work together to meet the goals: doing justice, controlling crime and preventing crime (Cole, Smith, & DeJong, 2015). Although this system had been built for a long time ago, continuously, some of its policies need to be reconsidered and reformed to suit the society with various situations. One of the characteristics that exercised by different levels in the criminal justice system, from police to correctional officials, is discretion. This characteristic also receives both supports and oppositions. In this paper, I will focus on an aspect of discretion in police. I believe that police discretion is very important, hence, it needs to be reformed by expanding its level.

Many different types of police agencies exist in the United States of America. Each and every police agencies varies from small town police departments to larger federal agencies. The functions of the police agencies usually depend on the type of organization, its size, its mission, and jurisdiction. When selecting an agency that is suitable for you and your interests several things should be considered.

This paper explores the inequality in our criminal justice system today. Several examples were cited from movies, textbooks, court cases and articles on the topics, bringing to light the controversy that our society is dealing with every day. Our police force and court systems are being manipulated by the use of money to influence outcomes in trials, and it provides a prejudicial backdrop for many in our communities today. If we are to come together as a society, and break down these barriers, we must be diligent in our efforts to reduce racial profiling casualties, where innocent people are being persecuted for

Multiple reports have shown that police are taking their jobs so seriously, they are willing to break the rules. This results in people losing their rights to privacy. What people do not understand is that they do have the power to say no when a police officer asks to search their cars or their person when there is no probable cause. The bone of contention is that people tend to have no will power to abnegate an officer. With that being said, people should understand the limits that cops can and cannot reach when it comes to arresting or fining a person under certain circumstances. If a person has evidence that there is no justification for the cop to search them, then in no way is it wrong to say that they do not give them the right to search.

Law enforcement agencies together with the entire criminal justice system of the United states have for a long time been accused of exhibiting biasness when it comes to the implementation of the law. The two systems have been accused of being harsh on particular ethnic communities and being too lenient on other communities. One perfect exemplification of the discrimination and bias exhibited by law enforcement agencies regards the criminalization of Black and Latino communities. Recent statistics indicates that members of the black and Latino communities are increasingly being exposed to harsher treatment by the criminal justice system and law enforcement, and the rates of victimization for these two communities are at all-time high. Incidences of random stopping, questioning and frisking of black and Latino people have been on the rise particularly in large cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago and so on. In addition, the number of prosecution and conviction of Latino and Black suspects in courts is also very high. Perhaps this is why a large percentage of incinerated individuals is made up of members from the black and Latino communities. The observed victimization and criminalization of blacks and Latinos has been the subject of much literature and press releases. This essay aims to explore how this criminalization has been reported in books, media outlets and so on.

When looking at the interaction between local, state, and federal law enforcement officers, we have seen in our country that there can be extreme misusage of power and even abuse of power that has profoundly affected members of the minority races McNamara & Burns, 2009). One issue that I have personally encounter between myself and law enforcement officers in my community is them attempting to strong arm me into believing the lies that they were telling me when they were looking for my cousin. Law enforcement officers have the constitutional right to our right lie, deceive, and manipulate members of the community that they encounter during an investigation (White, 2001). But law enforcements ability to achieve their goals in an inquiry may

Absolute power corrupts absolutely,is a saying that states that power tends to corrupt and that great men are almost always bad men. Abuse of power has been relevant throughout history . the police abused their power when they beat Rodney King and gave people cause to protest. The L.A. riots were a dark few days in Los Angeles's history and is still a driving force behind the black power movement

Everyone knows that Law Enforcement is a system of members who are in a society that act in an organized matter in order to enforce the law. By enforcing the law they punish the people who do not follow the rules by punishing them in accordance to the law in this case it is considered being locked away in the house of corrections ,there are many Law enforcement operations in The United States such as the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration Operations known as the (DEA) etc. When wanting to Policing in a Law enforcement system there is a diversity that allows all racial ethnic backgrounds and they value some traits that require empathy, compassion, and being able to relate to a person in a personal level. Also there will be many duties that

It is through the Criminal Justice System’s close collaborations with like-minded agencies such as the Police, Prison and Courts Services, that the public’s concerns and worries are resolved, in order to bring about justice in our communities (Cavadino and Dignan, 2007 as cited in Fox, 2014). With that in mind and out of the way, this essay will aim to explore some of the strengths and weaknesses, which are prominent within the Criminal Justice System. To do this successfully, the Police and the Courts Service will be the key agencies that will be explored in relation to the key Models that shape the whole Criminal Justice System. These Models were founded by Herbert L. Packer (1968) and Michael King (1981).

Notably, In Law enforcement, implementation of procedural Justice has a number of significant obstacles with police agency. These obstacles make it difficult to actualize the principles and focus of procedural justice. The following are two obstacles that can potentially derail the implementation process:

I have always viewed the justice system from the viewpoint of the law enforcer. Having a father being a deputy and an uncle in the police force, I have always had a sense of fear of this authority figure. Those in charge are there to protect us and we are to abide by the rules in which they enforce. If we break these rules, there is going to be a series of consequences.