CJS 210 Week 7 Checkpoint Police Misconduct Response

CJS 210 Week 7 Checkpoint Police Misconduct Response

Write a 200- to 300-word response addressing the following questions:

• How would you define police brutality?
• What is the relationship between police brutality, police corruption, and other police misconduct?
• What recommendations would you make to decrease police corruption, brutality, and misconduct?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Sample Answer 

I would define police brutality as the result of norms shared throughout a police department and that it is best understood as an unfortunate consequence of the police role. Police are given the unrestricted right to use force in situation in which their evaluation of the circumstances demands it; yet this mandate has never been precisely defined or limited. Or it could be defined, as it was in the past, a sadistic behavior displayed by officers who were seen as “bad apples”. The relationship between police brutality, police corruption and police misconduct are the norms that emphasize solidarity and secrecy that support a structure in which incidents of brutality and other misconduct will not be condemned by fellow officers. Also contributing to police brutality, corruption and misconduct is the type of policing. In older cities with high concentrations of poor and minority citizens, police officers are poorly trained and ignore many mino…………