Police Misconduct Summary

In chapter 11, the author continues the discussion on illegally obtained evidence but, this focuses more on the consequences for official misconduct. There are three remedies that affect criminal justice officers: Criminal law, Civil law, and Internal and External department review. Even though the assumption is that discipline from the law should equally apply to government officials as it should to regular civilians, this is not the reality. Often, judges and juries do not view police misconduct as a crime. Police misconduct is, in reality, a crime and there can be lawsuits filed against individual law enforcement officers, officers' superiors, law enforcement agencies, government units in charge of officers and department for money damages.

In the Anderson v. Creighton case, an FBI agent, Russell Anderson, conducted a search along with other officials, without a warrant, on the Creighton family's home. Anderson had reason to believe that a man thought to have committed a bank robbery, Vadaain Dixon, could be found in the home. The law enforcement officials point guns upon entering the home of the Creighton's and Mr. Creighton asked if the officials had issued a warrants but, these officials said they did not need a warrants as warrants were "platonic" and "TV produced" lies. The officers roughly handled the family in pursuits of heavy questioning, leading to a hospital visit for one of the family's children. An officer even claimed that Mr. Cleighton attempted to grab his shotgun, which resulted in Mr. Cleighton receiving a punch on the mouth causing him to bleed. This claimed seems a bit of a reach as Mr. Cleighton had nothing to hide in his home and his child was in the room in the time of the