CJE-3110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Knapp Commission, Juvenile Delinquency, Mollen Commission
15 Apr 2016
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Chapter 2: criical issues over the last decade. It was not unil the beginning of the 20th century that law enforcement became insituionalized in this country. In those days, police pracices could be harsh, brutal, and quite crude. The public viewed the police with contempt and regarded them as second class ciizens. A federal fact inding body was appointed in the irst part of this century to survey exising pracices within the american criminal jusice system. One common pracice that occupied the wickersham commission"s atenion was the widespread reliance upon coercive tacics to extract confessions from suspects. This use of coercive techniques was known as the third-degree. The goal was to force unwilling people to make self-incriminatory remarks involuntarily. The wichersham commission decried the use of third degree pracices. Another major deiciency that the wichersham commission denounced was the poliical manipulaion of rank and ile employees. Patrol oicers oten received their jobs in exchange for poliical favors.
