CRIM 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, Lapd Rampart Division, Rotten Apples
15 Mar 2016
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Lec 9: jl 10 cops behaving badly : police ethics and professionalism. What are ethics: how behaviour is perceived as right or wrong , for police, focus of ethics is to reduce likelihood that police engage in illegal/unprofessional conduct, canadian police held to a code of ethics. Contained in various provincial police acts, policy documents, and departmental. Codes of ethics policy: contains secions on integrity, ethical decision-making, and professional requirements, directed toward individual oicers rather than whole police organizaions, key case: r. v. mcneil, 2009, scc 3. Crown duty to disclose disciplinary records of oicers involved in invesigaions. Potenial contexts for ethical violaions: narcoics enforcement, vice enforcement, traic stops, gang/organized crime enforcement, undercover work. Wrongdoing in police work: discreion = potenial for misconduct/corrupion, heard to measure how much wrongdoing occurs. Dark igure of crime: may be due to number of factors: Aitude/culture: punishments for wrongdoing vary in severity. Levels of corrupion: misconduct can come in 3 forms:
