For this unit’s Complete assignment, write a comprehensive scholarly essay (minimum 1500 words) in which you analyze, explain, and apply these concepts in the context of a criminal justice organizational issue. You must incorporate and cite, using correct APA citation format, at least (4) four different scholarly research sources. In-line citations must be used in the body of your essay, and all research sources must be fully cited at the conclusion of your essay. Correct APA citation formats must be used.
Your essay should address police officers’ constitutional rights and limitations that can be lawfully imposed on those rights in the context of freedom of speech and searches and seizures. What restrictions can be placed on off-duty activities and behaviors? Can the content of a police officer’s personal social media accounts be grounds for disciplinary action? Can any limitations be imposed on what an officer can say or do in his or her off-duty time? Your essay should also include a discussion of the distinctions between a police officer being questioned during an Internal Affairs investigation and the same officer being questioned in a criminal investigation. Does every officer-involved shooting automatically generate a criminal investigation? What legal principles apply to threatening an officer with discharge if s/he refuses to answer questions related to an on-duty incident?