Police Ethics: Crisis in Law Enforcement
- ISBN-10
- 039808548X
- ISBN-13
- 9780398085483
- Series
- Police Ethics
- Pages
- 126
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Author
- Tom Baker
Description
The objective of this book is to provide law enforcement officers and supervisors with an understanding of ethical behavior as it relates to the police occupation. This book is based on the premise that an ethical crisis has always existed in law enforcement and is the result of the nature of the police occupation created by the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829. Policing is and always has been a morally dangerous occupation. There are four questions that are critical to the understanding of the ethical problems of the American law enforcement community. These questions are: (1) Is law enforceme.
