POLICE STATION SUSPECTS

Unfair Treatment of Suspects in Police Stations

Unfair Treatment of Suspects in Police Stations

Introduction

It is human nature for any problem arise at any time one hand say that and others do. With regard to police abuse, there will be many employees who feel that their work to combat the escalation of street crime, gangs, narcotics violations and other violent crimes is difficult already, and that the worry of excessive abusive behavior policy will only further reduce their ability to deal with crime effectively and safely (Bartol, 1992 pp. 240). Citizens, however, were caught in this gung-ho attitude, and police are increasingly crossing the line of investigation and interviews with offensive behavior. This abuse must be controlled so that the police did not forget who they serve - not ourselves, and the public. This means that even criminals who are part of the population, have certain rights, particularly civil rights (Perrott, 1999 pp. 339).

All citizens should be aware of these rights to protect themselves against over-aggressive employees who use their status as a badge and gun holders for intimidation and abuse of civilians for personal or departmental objectives. Such conflicts have significant implications for institutional and administrative procedures, policies. One of the major problems of physical abuse of police brutality (Perrott, 2003, p23). The main goal here should be to get the police to adopt and enforce a written policy governing the use of physical force. Policy should limit physical force to a narrow range of possible specific situations. For example, there should be restrictions on the use of hand to hand combat, batons, mace, stun guns and firearms. However, the action limit policy will bring a lot of controversy, especially from police officers and administrators themselves. Many people believe that their firepower was too weak to fight weapons of criminals on the streets, and limit their legal gun use is not only a threat to them, but innocent civilians who have to endure the hierarchy gunpower created for the benefit of criminals. For example, not only have to use staff brutality in very limited situations, to help reduce unwarranted use, but the policy should require officers to submit a written report after every use of physical force, regardless of the seemingly insignificant (Lennings, 1997 pp. 555).

Discussion

Statistics

According to the U.S. Department of Justice's Police Use of Force, 44.6 million people, or 21% of the population had face to face contact with police during 1996. Police contacts that resulted in the use of force or the threat of force totaled only five hundred thousand, or one percent of the total. Often times the use of force was preceded by some provocative action. Criminals often threaten the officer, assault the officer, argue or interfere with an arrest, posses a weapon, try to escape, elude, or resist arrest. After accounting for justified use of force, which is inherent in police work, less than one quarter of one percent of police contacts resulted in questionable use of force (Grennan, 1987, ...