The three ways that have been covered is investigating misconduct internally by colleagues, destroying misconduct information, and “gypsys” cops. These three ways are the most common and many people would agree that this is something that occurs way too often. According to a study there is a perfect split between what people believe is true about police accountability. 50% believe police are held accountable whereas the other 50% believe that police are not held accountable. As discussed in the introduction of the paper the main issue of police accountability is not individual problem but rather an institutionalized problem. What does this exactly mean? Even though what police officers are doing is wrong it is not their fault that they are not held accountable. It’s the whole police system overall that is the issue. The system inside police departments is completely in favor of protecting an officer. Misconduct history can completely be erased from an officer’s record without trouble. Police officers can transfer from one police department to another without a single piece of information of their preview history on their back. Lastly every single piece of misconduct information is reviewed internally which leads to the easy opportunity of ignoring misconduct to protect the officer from being charged with
The three ways that have been covered is investigating misconduct internally by colleagues, destroying misconduct information, and “gypsys” cops. These three ways are the most common and many people would agree that this is something that occurs way too often. According to a study there is a perfect split between what people believe is true about police accountability. 50% believe police are held accountable whereas the other 50% believe that police are not held accountable. As discussed in the introduction of the paper the main issue of police accountability is not individual problem but rather an institutionalized problem. What does this exactly mean? Even though what police officers are doing is wrong it is not their fault that they are not held accountable. It’s the whole police system overall that is the issue. The system inside police departments is completely in favor of protecting an officer. Misconduct history can completely be erased from an officer’s record without trouble. Police officers can transfer from one police department to another without a single piece of information of their preview history on their back. Lastly every single piece of misconduct information is reviewed internally which leads to the easy opportunity of ignoring misconduct to protect the officer from being charged with