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Police Misconduct

Police Misconduct. By Phyllicia Colvin. What is Police Misconduct?. Police Misconduct refers to police officers who abuse the law or perform unsuitable actions during official duty. This can involve discrimination, brutality, corruption and any type of falsified evidence.

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Police Misconduct

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  1. Police Misconduct By Phyllicia Colvin

  2. What is Police Misconduct? Police Misconduct refers to police officers who abuse the law or perform unsuitable actions during official duty. This can involve discrimination, brutality, corruption and any type of falsified evidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_misconduct

  3. Sources reporting my topic • Huffington Post • New York Times • Washington Post • The Guardian • LA Times • The Baltimore Sun

  4. What’s in the news? • Police corruption racial profiling and brutality. • In the news there were several stories about this type of corruption • The Washington Post and CNN reported on how certain ethnic groups are targeted by police and treated unfairly. • The Washington Post reported on an Arizona sheriff who was sued for racial discrimination against Latinos. This sheriff has repeatedly arrested, stopped, or detained Hispanics. The detained Hispanics were refused their basic rights and treated to embarrassing acts. The sheriff is described as a tough man stuck in his old ways and his ways are revered by his fellow officers, but not by the government. • I do not think the articles were bias or lacked any certainty that what this man does is wrong. I think that because his traditional way is harsh that it is automatically seen as a bad thing, but it still is kind of wrong. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/justice-to-sue-arizona-sheriff-joe-arpaio-saying-he-violated-hispanics-civil-rights/2012/05/10/gIQAYfFwFU_story.html http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/07/us/connecticut-racial-profiling/index.html?iref=allsearch

  5. What did they report? • The online newspapers reported cases about police officers that involved corruption. • These cases had to do with drugs, brutal force, and falsification of evidence. • There are three cases in the news that involve those three actions. • The Huffington Post reported that a group of corrupt police officers helped to delete evidence against organized crime groups. They also took inaccessible police files about investigations. • The NY Times had an article about how a man was suing the prison that tortured him into testifying for a crime that he did not commit. • In Toronto, corrupt police officers were charged for beating up and stealing money from drug dealers. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/16/toronto-police-drug-squad-corruption-trial_n_1208866.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/us/chicago-former-mayor-will-testify-on-accusations-of-police-torture.html?_r=1 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/29/police-corruption-officers-organised-crime-intelligence_n_1389263.html

  6. Jump Out Boys • This is a story about a group of police officers that call themselves the Jump Out Boys. They go around to neighborhoods and take justice into their own hands by shooting these gang members. Each member must be involved in a shooting to become a part of the group. • The group is supposed to uphold strong values, but their actions are unsanctioned by the police and their loyalties lie with the group not the station. • http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=7000288 • 00:41- 1:49 • http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sheriff-clique-20120420,0,663420.story • Here is the story from KNX 1070 • http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/05/17/deputies-in-la-county-sheriffs-jump-out-boys-clique-suspended/

  7. Police corruption is big in the United States because of gang violence and drugs. Most corrupt police officers are affiliated with drugs and drug money. Those that are not associated with drugs are misbehaving by ways of brutality or discrimination. The next slide is a graph of the types of police misconduct reported in 2010. • http://www.targetmap.com/viewer.aspx?reportId=6469

  8. http://www.policemisconduct.net/2010-npmsrp-police-misconduct-statistical-report/http://www.policemisconduct.net/2010-npmsrp-police-misconduct-statistical-report/

  9. Here is a graph showing the rate of how many police officers there were that was involved in misconduct and how many were actually reported. http://www.policemisconduct.net/2010-npmsrp-police-misconduct-statistical-report/

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