Law Enforcement: Issues
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 05:54:08
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Length: 4 pages (1151 words)
Category: / Recreation & Sports / Health Care
Length: 4 pages (1151 words)
Police gratuities - the long-time and controversial practice of providing unsolicited largess to sworn law enforcement officers - is a situation that was debated on legal and moral grounds. The acceptance of gratuities has been scrutinized since the beginning of policing. The gratuity provenance stems from the early days of policing when service was provided by a fee-for-service system. When a citizen's property was stolen, one would pay a certain fee to have the police …
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…acceptable.
References:
John Kleining, (1996) The Ethics of Policing New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Bracey, D. (1992). Police Corruption and Community Relations: Community Policing. Police Studies, 15(4): 179-183.
Daniel Patrick Barry (1999) Handling Police Misconduct in an Ethical Way University of Nevada.
Miller, Seumas and Blackler, John (2005). Ethical Issues in Policing Hants, England: Ashgate.
John R. Jones, Daniel P. Carlson (2003) Reputable Conduct: Ethical Issues in Policing and Corrections, Second Edition Prentice Hall
www.clearwaterpolice.org/articles/andrews.asp
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