Assignment:
For your Unit 3 Complete assignment, write a narrative essay (minimum 1200 words) in which you address and discuss the questions and statements listed below. Use at least three scholarly sources and remember to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the READ and ATTEND sections in your essay. Quote your sources in APA format.
1. Research the Knapp Commission and conclusions reached. Do you agree or disagree with their recommendations?
2. Research the Bell, California corruption trial and its results. What do you think caused this and allowed it to go on? What recommendations would you endorse and why?
3. Research the topic of "solvability factors" and how they can affect a criminal investigation. Should they be used or not?
4. You are a seasoned police officer, and your beat partner is the subject of a police investigation. You have knowledge of what the officer has done and will be called before the investigation board. Your partner has asked for your help and to make up a story so she can "beat the rap" and continue her career. What do you do and why? How will your partner feel?
Reading chapter, Police Ethics and Police Deviance