Police Force Corruption

An officer is someone that a lot of people look up to. They are people who have high reputations and they are seen as people who are in command which is why many citizens respect them but for the officers it can be very challenging. Officers have the pressure of having to work multiple and various hours in order to provide the community with safety but for some, the satisfactory of having done their duties is not enough. In the movie Training Day we see a lot of police corruption. In this movie we see Detective Alonzo Harris who is a thirteen year veteran train Jake Hoyt, a rookie police officer from the Los Angeles Police Department to see if he has what is needed to join the supreme narcotics unit.

Copland is a crime movie about the corruption of police in New York city. It all started with one incident with a officer who shot two African American teens because he felt threatened. This resulted in other officers bad decisions and ultimately ended some people's lives. The way they resolved these problems was by one sheriffs good intentions and investigation skills. It brought to justice the wrong doings of these police. When he did want to do something about it he decided to go to Internal Affairs investigator, but was pushed away because he didn't say anything when he was first asked about it.

One city beside New York that comes to mind when dealing with police corruption is the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD has been dealing with police corruption for a very long time, through racism and police brutality. One of their most notable corrupted endeavor was when seventy officers in the Rampart division faced claims of planting drugs and guns, beating suspects in custody and even shooting innocent citizens in gang sweeps. Former officer Rafael Perez agreed to a plea bargaining after being caught stealing cocaine from the evidence room. Perez discuss an incident when he and his former partner shot an innocent man during gang raid and planted a gun on him. Due to these incidents over a hundred criminal convictions were overturned.

Chapter 8 discusses police corruption. Even though the overall majority of Americans have a positive opinion of law enforcement officer, corruption does happen in police departments just has it does in every other industry in the United States. No business is completely immune to corruption. In chapter 9 the authors of the text write about the court system. In particular, the chapter talks about the criminal court system. The criminal courts consist of the judge, the prosecutor, who is the attorney that represents the state and defendant along with his/her attorney. Chapter 10 discusses the how a trial works. First, will the trial actually occur, or will the defendant accepts would is called a “plea bargain.”

One major way to reduce and prevent police corruption is to have a more efficient Internal Affairs division. The job of this agency is to uncover illegal and unethical practices performed by the police. (Bohm, Haley, 2012). However, there are still many cases of corrupt activities and police in the system. If this division was more proactive the occurrence of these activities would decrease drastically. At many places of employment, there are random drug tests and searches. Files are sporadically gone through and employees are closely monitored by their supervisors. Why aren’t these same practices being done to the people that are expected to save us and prevent crime from our streets? I work for a used clothing store and we are videotaped

We all know that Police Officers and those involved in Law Enforcement are typically good people who we entrust to uphold our laws and rules in society. For them to be able to do their job however we grant them several privileges that that empower them more than the average citizen. Their status at times can make them appear above the law since they are the ones upholding and enforcing it and with all due respect I believe mostly of those individuals are responsible and respectable however as we know from history time to time such privileges an lead to corruption and the abuse of power which they are granted. The following CNN news article contains a hint of some of the corruption that can take place. Taking place in King City California a rural and agricultural area recently where 6 police officers along with the former chief of police were arrested for several charges including conspiracy. Accusations claimed that the arrested officers took advantage of their powers and would impound the cars of local citizens typically those in the lower class and poor with the goal of those victims not being able to afford the impounding fees and then selling the vehicles to make a profit afterwards. The owner of a local towing company was also arrested being believed to be part of the corrupt officer’s conspiracy. Dean Flippo who is the District Attorney of Monterey County believed the conspiracy would take the following steps in order. First one of

Corruption within the New York Police Department is a quickly growing phenomenon; to an extent, this is largely due to the cop culture that encourages silence and draws the line at honesty. The good, honest officers are afraid to speak up against co-workers and in the process become corrupt themselves. When police departments were first established in the mid-nineteenth century, corruption quickly followed suit. It began with minor acts of misconduct and today deals with serious criminal activities. Scholars have noted that there is a strong correlation between the officers taking part in corrupt acts and officers wanting to fit in with the culture. In this paper, I argue that the deeper an officer in the New York police department gets into the police culture, the more likely it is that they become involved in narcotic corruption

Police corruption has been something which has been going on in the U.S for quite a long time. It’s been something we hear or see on the news since we were children and we are continuing to see it even our modern daily lives today. The most Common forms of police corruption we hear every day are theft of money and stolen drugs.

This may appear at first glance to be a matter of such a fundamental nature as not to deserve specific mention in an agency policy. Certainly, police officers are as subject to the law as any other person. But reality dictates and history has shown that some officers, whether through misguided zeal or for other reasons, may come to view themselves and their police colleagues as exempt from the law on a general, selective, or situational basis. This element of the policy is intended to stress the importance of the rule of law for all officers and to hold each officer accountable for any legal wrongdoing. (para. 4)

Do you know how many cops turns corrupt every year? Also do you know how much money the corrupted cops receive from criminals every year? Between April of 2009 and June of 2010 6,724 of corrupted cops. The average amount that corrupted cops receive are from a few thousand to 3.3 million the most recorded. “There are more than 900,000 sworn law enforcement officers now serving in the United States“.

Law enforcement officers uses undercover investigative methods to minimize drug corruption in local environment. It is currently views of police corruption attribute drug corruption either to flaws in character or to the corrupting criminal environment where investigations are carried out. A pragmatic took an approach to the interaction between personality and situational cause, and finding from assessment of a large group of undercover agents from an assessment of a large number of undercover agent. Who have done a great amount of dealing with drugs and alcohol abusers. They also took a simple from undercover agents who were linked to disciplinary problems during their time as an agent. A lot of the agents, thought that the risk for drug corruption

that they should not have to deal with is when a situation comes up with one of their

Reducing Police Corruption is something that is needed in our profession today. Not all departments and not all officers are corrupt. But, corruption does occur in some form or fashion. It could be as simple as taking a free coffee or drink at your neighborhood store to taking cash to protect drug shipments. In my area, we have seen an officer prosecuted for protecting drug. The officer was arrested and prosecuted and later determined he was a former gang member. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, (2018) describes corruption as improper and unusually unlawful conduct intended to benefit oneself.

Police: persons whose responsibility is to enforce laws; usually the term used for city or municipal officers, as opposed to county deputies (Peak, 2015). The duty of a police officer is to protect, serve and maintain order of the public. However, who is maintaining order of the police? Or preventing and detecting whether they are committing a crime and abusing their power? Like in any other profession, police officers tend to get away with unethical behavior. Hence, there should be more police accountability. There are many actions that police officers should be held accountable for, like: false arrests, negligence, off-duty activities, search and seizures, wrongful death suits and police pursuits, using excessive force, and corruption.

study conducted by researchers at the Institute for the Rule of Law from 2002-2006. The researchers noticed a sharp rise in economic crimes and a large deficient between the amounts of economic criminal cases initiated and amounts of cases sent to court. They found that in those years, 40%-60% of economic criminal cases went unresolved. In the cases that were solved, 60%-80% of them were never brought to court. Of the cases that were brought to court, 20%-30% fell apart. The researchers concluded that law enforcement officials were less inclined to punish economic criminals because it would have impacted their shadow economy earnings.