Civilian Review Board Analysis

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The paper discusses the relationship of the civilian review board to the oversight of the criminal justice system. In order to understand the civilian review board, it is important to know who they are and what the board is designed to accomplish. “The occupation of the Civilian Review Board is an entity external to the police department’s internal affairs, and consists of citizens from the outside the development (non-sworn), appointed by the mayor or other senior government officials” (Chapter 4: Alternative Models for Police Disciplinary Procedures, n.d.). “A Civilian Review Board is generally charged with the duty of reviewing complaints and making recommendations as to disciplinary action after the police department has completed its …show more content…
How can the civilians that are there with smartphones who record the incident on their phones to know that if they come forward to know that when they show their evidence that there will be no retaliation? There has to be an association that will be there to reinforce the rules upon the officers that step over rules. In these situations is where the civilian review board steps in to ensure that all the Q and A in order not only for the officer but for the civilians. In Chapter 13 in Criminal Justice Ethics, Banks discusses different consequentialism, Principle of Utility, Hedonism, Utilitarianism, and the the two principles of utilitarians (Banks, 2017). These are important because they describe the different aspects of consequences of actions. “Consequentialism being a doctrine that the morality of an action is to be judged solely by its consequences, Principle of Utility (also known as The greatest Happiness) is utilitarians attempt to lay down an object principle that would determine whether the particular action was ethically right or wrong, Hedonism meaning the the pursuit of pleasure and or sensual self-indulgence and utilitarianism being the doctrine that actions are right if they are useful or for the benefit of the majority” (Banks, …show more content…
Their job is to get down into the depth of the event in question. Their job is to gather the information not only from the officer and his or her partner but from other individuals that may have seen the incident. Citizen oversight committees are officially recognized groups composed of members of the community, often non-sworn civilians, who review complaints about police on behalf of the citizenry with more than 100 citizen oversight committees in the United States and approximately 18 percent of local law enforcement agencies in California have one (Calderon, & Hernandez-Figueroa, (2013). The civilian review board was not always recognized by the state or government organizations, they were not really considered an actually organization until around 1990s when individuals began to involve themselves in the review