Two Hourspolice Torture Https Discussion

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Police Torture https://www.dw.com/en/police-threat-fuels-debate-on-torture/a-785751

Click on the above link. What is your opinion, should the police be punished in this case. Is torture always wrong,? Do not let the opinion of your professor sway you. He may or may not be stable.

Respond with an initial post of 200 words. Respond to at least one other student with a minimum of 100 words.

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In this case, the police made threats against the suspect (Magnus). Police told Magnus that they would physically harm him if he did not give up the whereabouts of the child that had been kidnapped. The police never actually harmed Magnus, because their threat alone made him scared enough to give up the child’s location. In this scenario I do not think that the police deserve to be punished at all. This is because I do not feel that threatening alone should be against the rules for police. The use of threats in a case where someone’s life is on the line seems reasonable enough to me.

For instance if a police department captures a suspect, and they know that the victim’s life is in danger then their goal needs to be to get them back alive. Police need to be able to do everything they can to get the victim back, but there is a limit. The use of torture is the limit. If we begin to use torture on cases where someone’s life is at stake, then we will start using torture for all cases. Also, if we allow torture as a last chance type of strategy, it may become a first choice which would be wrong. If we begin torturing suspects, it will become a slippery slope that we lose control over, and we do not want to be as bad as the criminals we put away. Finally if we allow torture, and police have the wrong guy as a suspect that could be a real problem.

I do think that threatening a suspect is okay. This is because you are only scaring them mentally, and not doing any physical harm. In addition I think the threats will sway the mind of the criminal, so that they give police the information they need.