Law Enforcement Case Study

Abstract This paper explains why training in the field of ethical behavior is extremely important for law enforcement professionals. Law enforcement professionals are held to a higher standard than the normal citizen, people look to them when they need help. Unethical behavior by a law enforcement officer can be detrimental to the law enforcement profession as a whole. Cell phones in today’s society make it harder for law enforcement officers to do their jobs, they don’t know when they’re going to be recorded while handling a call or not, and when they’re recorded the video only shows the view point that the recorder wants the public to see. Therefore, training on ethics for law enforcement officers is imperative. Training will help give law

Law enforcement agencies have ethics built in their core mission and policies for many reason. In order for an agency to be accredited by the Commission of Accreditation in Law Enforcement Associations (CALEA), agencies have to have training and policy that deals with ethics. Having officers and policies that deal with ethics creates a blanket over the organization when one of their officers make an unethical decision while on the job. It puts the legal liability of the officers’ actions back on the officer and not the law enforcement agency as a

Most times the public only sees the end stage of the arrest and not what the arrestee has done to cause law enforcement officers to use force against them. When ethics comes into play if officers decided to throw in some extra strikes after the subject became compliant. Once the subject is taken into custody they have to be treated like any other complaint prisoner unless he continues to be uncooperative while in custody. If this doesn’t happen and they let the prisoner get under their skin, then they open themselves to the possibility of compromising their ethical and moral