Criminal Justice Ethics and Liability Week 5: Week Five - Individual Work Instructional Objectives for this activity: Determine potential areas of negligence & liability in law enforcement. Consider...

Criminal Justice Ethics and Liability
Week 5: Week Five - Individual Work
Instructional Objectives for this activity: Determine potential areas of negligence & liability in law enforcement.
Consider the following case: Los Angeles County sheriffs obtained a search warrant for the home of four black suspects in an identity-theft fraud scheme. When police went to the home, a white teenager answered the door and was ordered to lie face down on the floor, while police went into the bedroom and ordered the two naked white people in it to stand naked next to the bed, while police searched the home.

Criminal Justice Ethics and Liability Week 5: Week Five - Individual Work Instructional Objectives for this activity: Determine potential areas of negligence & liability in law enforcement. Consider the following case: Los Angeles County sheriffs obtained a search warrant for the home of four black suspects in an identity-theft fraud scheme. When police went to the home, a white teenager answered the door and was ordered to lie face down on the floor, while police went into the bedroom and ordered the two naked white people in it to stand naked next to the bed, while police searched the home. It turned out that the black suspects had moved 3 months earlier. The white couple sued the police, contending that the search was an unreasonable invasion of privacy, as the color of their skin should have immediately tipped police that they were not the suspects and that the premise for the search (the warrant) was flawed. Answer the following critical thinking questions in a 1 Page paper: Be the Consequence of Unethical Conduct?" pages 120-134. Civil Remedies for Ethical Misconduct: The remedies for ethical misconduct can lie outside the criminal law. Civil penalties which are used because the burden of proof for liability is lower than that for criminal cases ( preponderance of evidence versus beyond a reasonable doubt). Also, wronged parties are often more interested in compensation for their losses than in seeing the offender punished. Learning Activities: To avoid the legal consequences of unethical behavior, law enforcement agencies turn to accreditation agencies for oversight. CALEA, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, is the law enforcement accreditation agency most often used by U.S. law enforcement. 1. Complete the following: · Explore the website for the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) in preparation for your teamwork assignment. Criminal Ju s tice Ethics and Liability Week 5: Week Five - Individual Work Instructional Objectives for this activity: Determine potential areas of negligence & liability in law enforcement. Consider the following case: Los Angeles County sheriffs obtained a search warrant for the home of four black suspects in an identity - theft fraud scheme. When police went to the home, a white teenager answered the door and was ordered to lie face down on the floor, while police went i nto the bedroom and ordered the two naked white people in it to stand naked next to the bed, while police searched the home. It turned out that the black suspects had moved 3 months earlier. The white couple sued the police, contending that the search was an unreasonable invasion of privacy, as the color of their skin should have immediately tipped police that they were not the suspects and that the premise for the search (the warrant) was flawed. Answer the following critical thinking questions in a 1 P age paper: Be the Consequence of Unethical Conduct?" pages 120 - 134. Civil Remedies for Ethical Misconduct: T he remedies for ethical misconduct can lie outside the criminal law. C ivil penalties which are used because the burden of proof for liability is lower than that for cri minal cases ( preponderance of evidence versus beyond a reasonable doubt ) . Also, wronged parties are often more interested in compensation for their losses than in seeing the offender punished.