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Organized Crime is more than just a problem in the United States, It’s a global problem. In addition to the Italian and Latino groups that operate in the Americas, there are other significant organized crime groups operating from Japan, China, and Russia.
Jerome Skolnick identified two types of criminal gangs. Cultural gangs who are based in particular neighborhoods and may be actively involved in a number of different criminal activities and entrepreneurial gangs who exist for the sole purpose of gaining wealth by employing the use of criminal activities such as the manufacturing, distribution, and sale of illegal narcotics. (Abadinsky, 2004)
John Gotti is one of the most well known names associated with organized crime in the United States. Gotti was a top figure in the infamous Gambino crime family in New York.
Gotti was born and raised in a poor neighborhood in the South Bronx area of New York City. The disenfranchised Gotti dropped out of high school to join the Gambino crime family, the start of a long career in organized crime.
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Introduction
Most everyone in the United States has some general impression as to what organized crime is, and most of us received that impression from the media. Organized Crime has been widely portrayed in Television shows like “The Sopranos” and movies such as “The Godfather” series.
Thousands of law enforcement officers, district attorneys, and ordinary citizens have had more up close and personal experience with organized crime groups ranging from juvenile street gangs to The Mafia. It is from their experience, and the experiences of organized crime members themselves, that reveals the true picture of organized crime.
For this project in Ethics and Character in Law Enforcement, two subjects in the field of Law Enforcement were interviewed for this project concerning Ethics and Character in Law Enforcement. They were asked a series of 5 questions relating to the subject of Ethics in the field of Law Enforcement those questions were:
Do the interviewees feel that police are more ethical today, or were they more ethical ten years ago?
Why do police officers become involved in misconduct?
Do the interviewees feel that there is enough training offered in ethics at the police academy level? If not, why is that?
Should ethics training be offered as an on-going process for law enforcement officers?
Do the interviewees feel that education and/or training in ethics would reduce incidents of police corruption?
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A microcosm is a subset of any group which is a reflection of the community as a whole, in a microcosm it is assumed there will be an equal percentage of “bad apples” as in the community as a whole. This concept applied to police agencies would make the assumption that there would be an equal percentage of “bad applies” in that police agency because it is in fact a microcosm of the community.
Therapeutic reduction is the belief that an aliment, typically an aliment of mental health is responsible for a criminal action taken by an individual. This belief in a universal application essentially justifies any and all crimes under the insanity defense.
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Noble cause corruption is an act which is usually illegal and almost certainly unethical used to reach to justify reaching an end result that may seem like it is noble and justifiable. Simply put the concept is known as “the means to justify a end”.
The society-at-large hypothesis offered by O.W. Wilson asserted that society itself may be responsible for corrupting public servants such as police officers. O.W. Wilson believed that these was a high level of corruption in the Chicago Police Department because the community extended gratuities given to doormen, and other service oriented positions to those is public service. In other words officers were offered small amounts of money in exchange for protection or other services. Police officers came to expect these gratuities as a bellhop might expect a tip for bringing luggage up to a hotel room or a valet might expect a tip for parking a car.
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Imagine you are a newly appointed chief of police in a municipality noted for having problems with police corruption. Explain your strategies for reform from the ground up. How would you go about turning your department around? Be detailed in your answer and make sure you cover all aspects of your initiative.
After taking the position, I would develop a list of departmental regulations and have frank seminars “laying down the law” so to speak will all personnel – to make it known that I will not tolerate corruption.
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