Criminal Justice

There is always the question of how ethical our policing system really is. The definition of ethics is “a discipline dealing with good and evil and with moral duty”. Many police officers do not follow the complete “code of rule” all of the time.
In article number nineteen, ethics and criminal justice have been under watch for some time now. There are many theories that tie in with the misconduct of police officers. First, there’s the “rotten barrel theory”, which suggests that the department is “rotten”, or producing a lot of misconduct. Second, there is the “rotten apple theory”, which suggests that there is ...