However, the courts did find that police officers at any time may be forced to appear in a lineup, although this constituted a seizure of the officer's physical person.
Explain how the free exercise of religion can pose problems for criminal justice administrators.
Police work requires individuals to assume certain duties, at certain times, which may conflict with religious prohibitions and proscriptions. Officers must work weekend and night shifts and also act with violence, when necessary, to protect the public. For example, merely because a person is an observant Orthodox Jew, Seventh Day Adventist, or a member of another religious sect which requires an individual to observe certain behaviors (such as attending church on Sunday or not riding in a car on the Sabbath) does not mean that a police department can be forced to accommodate all of the officer's requests....
When an officer assumes his or her employment, he or she assumes that he or she will have to perform certain duties and has to balance his or her religious requirements with the desire to be an officer. While a police department may hire a Quaker, for example, a religion that advocates pacifism, the officer cannot use Quakerism as an excuse not to carry or fire a gun under any circumstances.
Additionally, n officer cannot use religion as an excuse for violating the law and bringing shame to his unit: an officer can be fired for engaging in polygamy, which is against the laws of the United States, and can also be fired for drug use even if his or her religion uses certain drugs ceremonially.
Reference
Peak, Kenneth J. (2009). Justice administration: Police, courts, and corrections management.
5th Edition. New York: Prentice Hall.
