Police Misconduct: Case Study Analysis

CASE STUDY
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
CASE DESCRIPTION....................................................................................................................3
CASE ANALYSIS..........................................................................................................................4
APPLICATION OF THEORY........................................................................................................4
REFLECTION.................................................................................................................................5
SUMMARY.....................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Crime topology can be defined as a means of developing general summary statement that
observes various kinds of facts about particular classes of criminals who are homogeneously
treated as a type rather than a studying criminals as single species (Hagan & Daigle, 2018).
There are various kinds of crime topologies such as: Power and Official Discourse, Institutional
Abuse, State Violence and State Crime, War and War Crimes and many more. This assignment
will lay emphasis on Police misconduct topology with the help of a case study analysis.
Harm
Police officer abused two afghan women
CASE DESCRIPTION
Case Heading: Police officers abused Afghan women in Sydney traffic stop, watchdog finds.
This incident occurred on 28TH APRIL 2019 at Sydney traffic stop.
This case is about two police officers who were to be involved within a serious
misconduct who racially abused and belittled two Afghan women at a traffic stop in western
Sydney. This case can into notice when the video of both the police officers was published in
which two women first 24-year-old woman and her stepmother were pulled by two police
officers because they through that they were not wearing a seat belt. Police officer shouted at the
young women that she is one of the most stupid people he has seen driving a motor vehicle and
also threatened her to falsely charge her as an accessory to murder. Laster second police officer
asked her about her religion. They continuously shouted at the women even though she tried to
apologise. He demanded that both the women produce identification. When the young women
explained that her step- mother has arrived on temporary visa then he threatened her to put her
behind the prison. In video second police office was heard using a word Villawood which is used
as a reference to a Sydney immigration detention centre.
Then both the police officers’ orders both the women’s to move out of their car, when the
driver protest, he threatened her to make false charges against her. When she tries to explain to
the police officers that she didn’t know where to stop her car then he again said that she should
hand over her driving license to the police officers if she didn’t know how to drive on Australian
roads. He further added that she should not argue or she be in back of a divvy going back to the
jail and she should not take advantage o their system. This incident di nit stop here, after filling a
complain about both the officers she said that after putting the camera off he said various kinds
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