In regard to police abuse, there will be many officers who feel that their job of fighting escalating street crime, gangs, nar

Most of the cost of the above mentioned police abuse prevention strategies lies with the taxpayer, for when it comes to funding discipline and re-training yet again, the burden is on the taxpayers. What this means is that citizens must be willing to take on this additional financial burden or take a loss in some other area of police protection. For example, to pay for the additional manpower it takes to implement the new policies, from disciplinary actions and mental and physical training, the department may have to cut back on the total number of officers, both in the field and holding administrative positions. This would mean fewer officers on the street for protection. Response time may slow down as officers have larger areas to cover. In less affluent neighborhoods, where adopting the higher cost is not a small issue, and where added police protection is most often needed, and where crime and abuse most prevalent, added stress of police budgets does not serve as many people. For those who can afford the financial increase, they are morally aware that police are being kept in-line. For those who cannot afford it, they see more of the negative implications such as increased cost--possibly--or less available officers. Is there a way for police abuse to be monitored without the direct community taking the full burden? Perhaps the federal government can supply the additional manpower, and hence the additional cost, of implementing an investigation and rehabilitation team.

While brutality and police abuse seems to be a prehistoric idea, the surge of violence has caused police to fight back in often un-police like manners, though seemingly acceptable to deal with those break the law. Methods must be implemented which effectively deal with police who tend to cross the line, from simple situations to serious firearm use or prejudice. These solutions should be offered by a variety of view points, so as to address both the needs of police and citizens themselves.

Another form of unethical police abuse is spying, or information gathering, on constitutionally protected political, religious and private sexual behavior. Spying is a difficult abuse to monitor because it is a covert activity which makes those who participate in it all the more unethical. The victim does not know it's happening, and others do not witness it. One way to curtail spying or excessive information gathering is to restrict the information police have access to. All information to be collected can only be done so if that person is reasonably suspected of having committed a crime, and the information must be relevant to that crime. A second solution to controlling illegal access to information is to implement an independent civilian auditor who must review all police authorizations to collect restricted information and have access to all other police files. This will ensure the police are not gathering superfluous information. The use of an independent civilian auditor will also ensure the process does not represent the interests of officers only, but also those of the general pubic, whom they are charged with protecting. If the auditor finds that the police have violated the law, he or she must so notify the individuals who are the subjects of the unlawful investigations so that they can then press charges against the city and collect damages. This is a form of punishment which will discourage the officers from spying, and will encourage city officials to crack down on those who do to legally protect themselves.

One of the main police abuse problems is physical brutality. The main goal here should be to get the police departments to adopt and enforce a written policy governing the use of physical force. The policy should restrict physical force to the narrowest possible range of specific situations. For example, their should be limitations on the use of hand-to-hand combat, batons, mace, stun guns, and firearms. However, limiting polices' actio

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