I chose an article on abuse of power and authority. In this particular article, two cops were arrested for picking up nine drunken homeless men, shoving them into a police van made for 6, and driving them around for hours on a very hot spring day before dumping them at a distant parking lot. An officer with the police force in this town said that police were told to remove drunken people from the area, but were supposed to take them to a place where they can be supervised, not to a distant area. The two police officers involved didn't keep notes of their movements that day, was suspended without pay for 50 hours and ordered to forfeit 35 hours in overtime pay for three violations of the Police Act on May 20, 2005.
Within the article, several comments are made on their abuse of power and how wrong it was arguing that they were being deliberately cruel and rude to these homeless people. I chose this article because I was so taken aback by not just the Stanford Prison Experiment, but how cops were Racist towards Maurice in another clip we watched. I believe abuse of power is a big issue today and I am glad that these two officers were caught being unjust.
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Canada/20101220/edmonton-police-101220/
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