Police have to do what they can to protect the public, but these actions sometimes cross lines and end up doing more harm than good. Within policing, racial profiling is an unacceptable and ineffective method towards solving crime that must be improved to create an equal and functional society. Racial profiling, a destructive process that still continues today, involves the police using race or ethnicity as reasoning to suspect a person of a crime. Racial profiling comes in many forms, varying
Discretion is when the effective limits on a public official’s power leave him or her free to make a choice among a number of possible courses of action” (Davis 1980). This same concept is true for police officers, police are tasked with using their best judgment when it comes to dealing with situations that arise in there busy day. Unfortunately as seen in recent history police do not always use their power of discretion in the best interest of the community. Due to lack of self-control or just
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of