Chapter 9
In the typology of deviant officers, these officers actively seek out opportunities for corruption.
What are meat eaters?
The use of police power and authority for personal gain.
What is police corruption?
This is defined as violence of a degree that is more than justified to affect a legitimate police function.
What is excessive force?
A general statement of purpose that is useful in identifying the role and mission of the police.
What is a goal?
This investigative body looked at corruption in the New York City Police Department in the 1960s and 1970s:
What is the Knapp Commission?
In the typology of deviant officers, these officers are honest but willing to overlook some of the indiscretions of other officers.
What are straight shooters?
Under the use of force continuum, this operates on the assumption that the visible authority of the state is sufficient to deter criminal wrongdoing
What is mere presence?
A system that tracks specific types of officer behaviors, usually bad behaviors.
What is an early warning system?
The research conducted concerning police values seems to support this theory.
What is predispositonal theory?
Police actions that abandon ethical means in order to achieve good ends
What is noble cause corruption?
The shooting of unarmed, nonviolent suspects has been ruled by the Supreme Court to be a violation of this Amendment.
What is the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?
The investigation into a citizen complaint is considered to be this if the investigation determines that the complaint did not occur as alleged against the officer.
What is unfounded?
Police behavior that does not conform to the standards of norms or expectations.
What is police deviance?
Police actions that relies on race or ethnicity rather than behavior.
What is racial profiling?
Types of weapons that include Bean bags shot from a shotgun, OC pepper spray, and tasers.
What are less lethal weapons?
This ethical perspective is probably a more realistic description of day-to-day police ethics than any other.
What is ethical relativism?
This perspective emphasizes the social context in which police officers are hired and trained and police-citizen interactions occur.
What is sociological perspective?
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What is sociological?
Police activity that does not conform to standards and committed during the course of normal work activity
What is occupational deviance?
Violence of a degree that is more than is justified to affect a legitimate police function.
What is excessive force?
When an investigation into citizen complaints finds that the alleged complaint is essentially true but the officer’s behavior is justified, legal, and within organizational policy.
What is exoneration?