... . It's wrongdoing, the appearance of wrongdoing, or puzzling behavior that violates standards, most often set in departmental policies and procedures that the officer may not even be aware of. Misconduct leaves the public free to speculate and generalize about the profession of policing as a whole. The variety of ethical dilemmas in policing range from the extremely serious (malfeasance), such as whether ... this step may find it hard to identify the difference between an "officer of the law" and a common criminal. This is a particularly dangerous violation of the role of a police office...

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