Impacts
What is one of the most significant impacts of police misconduct.
It causes mistrust and suspicion in the police.
The “code” among police subculture that aims to protect officer misconduct, corrupt acts, or crimes.
Blue Wall of Silence
What is corruption?
When a police officer acts in a manner that places their personal gain ahead of duty.
What role does the code of silence play in identifying and addressing issues of misconduct?
Actively hiding the identification and making their peers be quiet about the different situations.
Taking hostile or aggressive actions against each other
Malfeasance
This is a typical part of the routine for members of the minority.
Emotional and psychological abuse.
Why does the cycle of corruption persist?
Police officers might not want to be honest due to the fear of retaliation from coworkers.
What are grass eaters and meat eaters?
Grass Eaters: officers who passively accept the presence of corruption.
Meat Eaters: Officers who actively engage in corrupt activities.
Are there ways in which the code of silence is beneficial to law enforcement?
Protecting colleagues being loyal and using teamwork and maintaining an us vs them unity against judgement.
Taking inappropriate action or intentionally giving incorrect information
Misfeasance
Sam Walker has said this has the highest impact on people with police interactions and cause the most distrust.
Disrespectful and offensive language.
What strategy of justifying police misconduct involves the idea that if nobody was directly hurt by an officer’s action, no actual misconduct took place?
Denial of Injury
What is the 1894 Lexow Commission?
An investigative group appointed by a coalition of concerned citizens and government groups closed its hearing into police corruption and ineffectiveness in New York City.
Should departments attempt to eliminate it altogether?
Yes, departments should strive to minimize misconduct as much as possible by creating strong ethical cultures, but eliminating it entirely is unrealistic.
Situations in which officers circumvent the law to serve what they perceive to be the greater good.
Nobel Causes Corruption
What does RPI stand for?
Respectful Policing Initiative.
What is a common reason for an officer to take part in acts of misconduct or corruption, mainly in situations of crimes involving money?
Economics
What are the three elements of corruption?
They are forbidden by some law, rules, regulations, or ethical standards.
They involve the misuse of the officer’s position.
They involve some actual or expected material reward or gain.
Do statistical prediction models do a better job of identifying officers at high risk of corruption than other models of prediction?
Yes, Statistical prediction models generally outperform traditional, non-statistical methods.
Units within police agencies that receive and investigate complaints concerning police misconduct, investigate possible indicators of police misconduct, prosecute officers who appear to be responsible for serious misconduct, and collect intelligence on misconduct and share it with police administrators.
Internal Affairs
What three things in the video with Sam Walker did he say were the most commonly done when it comes to police misconduct.
Common vulgarities, Racial and ethnical slurs, Other forms of disrespect.
What psychological experiment studied power and authority through unethical means, but can also be used as an explanation regarding misconduct and corruption?
Stanford Prison Experiment
What is the purpose of the 1994 Mollen Commission?
The commission was to investigate allegations of misconduct, analyze the effectiveness of anti-corruption mechanisms within the department, and offer recommendations for improvement.
Studies have shown that police officers have a much more narrow definition of serious misconduct than private citizens. How do you account for the difference?
Police occupational culture, different experience with the legal and procedural framework with them.
The charge of the committee was to investigate allegations of misconduct, analyze the effectiveness of anticorruption mechanisms within the department, and offer recommendations for improvement.
Mollen Commission