Question

Although a relatively infrequent occurrence there are police officers who engage in criminal activity, such as the off duty police officer who was stealing parts from an automotive supply retailer. Whenever the public learns through the press that one or more of the police officers entrusted to protect their community has been arrested for engaging in criminal activity and betraying the public trust,there is a sentiment that the criminal law enforcement officer should receive a far harsher sentence that another in

Answer 1

It seems right that a person that it's supposed to be helping us feel safe and that his main job is protect and serve, when we can prove of his wrongdoings, receives a harsher sentence that a person that doesn't work as a police officer. A criminal often times does it out of neccesity, because he'd grown up in a type of environment that he doesn't know any better. His chances at succeding in life are often limited by the same place and community that he grew up in. While it may seems true for a police officer to come from a bad neighborhood, it's also true that he went through training and education where he knows what's right or wrong, he doesn't have the need to steal because he has a steady job.