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Research Question:
Do police officers have less sentencing time when they commit crimes compared to other
criminals?
Hypothesis:
Police officers who commit crimes will have less or no punishment and will continue to commit
crimes and not be held responsible because they are in a position of power.
There have been many cases where police officers have beaten or killed suspects and have gotten
away with it. Police officers have stolen, committed acts of violence and even murdered and not
been given the same amount of punishment as non police officers. However, the data may be
biased because each case is different and not all of the cases are public so the results of some
cases are unknown. 873 out of 3,328 police officers on trial for violence were convicted. There
are 1.7 officers arrested per 100,000 population compared to the 3,888 citizens per 100,000
population. Out of all of the officers arrested throughout the period of a seven year study, only
54% were fired. Of the officers arrested for domestic violence, only 37.5% were fired.
Rationale:
I believe that this issue is important because it means our system is corrupt and that effects
everyone. If the police officers that you trust your life with are murdering people or selling drugs
we shouldn’t be trusting them with our lives. The police who are corrupt and committing crimes
aren’t just in one area, they are all over the US. I believe that we all deserve to feel safe around
Basis of Hypothesis:
I stated in my hypothesis that police officers who commit crimes and get away with it will
continue to do so because data showing that 54% of police officers who were fired were able to
transfer to another department and keep their law enforcement certification and they just go to a
neighboring county.
Operational Definitions:
Sentencing time- the time served in jail after being convicted for a crime
System- police using their power to control us, but being dishonest and breaking that trust