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	Stack54 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		For a corrupt act to occure, three distinct elements of police corruption must be present simultaneously: 1) missuse of authority, 2) missuse of official capacity, and 3) missuse of personal attainment.
		Police sergeant Joseph Trimboli, a department investigator, told the Mollen Commission that when he tried to root out Dowd and other corrupt cops, his efforts were blocked by higher-ups in the department.
		Police agenies, in an attempt to elminate corruption have tried everything from increasing salaries, requiring more training and education, and developing polices which are intended to focus directly on factors leading to corruption.
	members.aol.com /oohalooo/policecorr.html (3018 words)

	Corruption (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Nevertheless, it is plausible that corruption in general, including institutional corruption, typically involves the despoiling of the moral character of persons and in particular, in the case of institutional corruption, the despoiling of the moral character of institutional role occupants qua institutional role occupants.
		The police officer is compromised, and compromised in a corrupt and intimidating police environment.
		Corruption in relation to a tendering process is a matter of a failure in relation to minimum moral standards enshrined in laws or regulations.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/corruption (8782 words)

	Drug Policy Alliance: Police Corruption
		Approximately half of all police officers convicted as a result of FBI-led corruption cases between 1993 and 1997 were convicted for drug-related offenses and nationwide over 100 cases of drug-related corruption are prosecuted each year.
		Some police also recognize that their real function is not so much to protect victims from predators but to regulate an illicit market that can't be suppressed and that much of society prefers to keep underground.
		One of America’s worst cases of drug-related police corruption occurred in California after an officer caught stealing eight pounds of cocaine from a police department's evidence locker turned on his fellow officers to get a reduced sentence.
	www.drugpolicy.org /law/police (648 words)

	Police corruption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct sometimes involving political corruption, and generally designed to gain a financial or political benefit for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest.
		Police corruption can involve a single officer or group of officers, or can be the standard practice of entire police precincts or departments.
		However, sometimes the corruption is so widespread that investigation requires an external body with far reaching powers, such as the Kennedy commission in Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Police_corruption (157 words)

	POLICE CORRUPTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Police Corruption is defined as the abuse of police authority for personal or organizational gain.
		For a corrupt act to occur, three distinct elements of police corruption must be present simultaneously: 1) misuse of authority, 2) misuse of official capacity, and 3) misuse of personal attainment.
		The danger of corruption for police, and this is that it may invert the formal goals of the organization and may lead to "the use of organizational power to encourage and create crime rather than to deter it.
	www.iejs.com /Policing/police_corruption.htm (2003 words)

	JAPANESE POLICE CORRUPTION
		The original mission of the police should be to maintain the safety and order of civil society by working to protect the life and assets of individual citizens and investigating crimes and arresting the suspects.
		As long as the public security police, which blatantly infringe the fundamental human rights of the people guaranteed in the Constitution, hold a central position in the entire police system, it is only natural that the sense of protecting the people's human rights as well as the rights of the policemen themselves is grossly lacking.
		The only way to regenerate and save the Japanese police from corruption is to carry out democratic reforms of the entire police organization, by abolishing the system favoring the security police, or the public safety policy, as well as the career elite system, and eradicating the practices of embezzlement.
	www.tokyoprogressive.org /~tpgn/japan/japanesepolice.html (2353 words)

	Politics: Analysis of Police Corruption
		In simple terms, corruption in policing is usually viewed as the misuse of authority by a police officer acting offically to fulfill personal needs or wants.
		Essentially, police corruption falls into two major categories-- external corruption which concerns police contacts with the public, and internal corruption, which involves the relationships among policemen within the works of the police department.
		Although the police agaency should be the main source of controling its own corruption problem, there also requires some support and assistance from the local community.
	www.cyberessays.com /Politics/141.htm (3064 words)

	Police - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The scheme of the Paris police force was extended to the rest of France by a royal edict of October 1699, resulting in the creation of lieutenant generals of police in all large French cities.
		Police often have specialist units for handling armed offenders, and similar dangerous situations, and can (depending on local laws), in some extreme circumstances, call on the military (since Military Aid to the Civil Power is a role of many armed forces).
		Police organizations must sometimes deal with the issue of police corruption, which is often abetted by a code of silence that encourages unquestioning loyalty to one's comrades over the cause of justice.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Police (4464 words)

	The myths shrouding police corruption - Opinion - www.theage.com.au
		In the case of police corruption, an extra million dollars and new powers to coerce answers to questions is all about power but has little to do with capacity.
		Myth No. 3 is that police corruption in Victoria is sequestered in a small and now extinct area - the abolished drug squad - and is not of the "systemic" type identified elsewhere.
		By exposing these five myths about police corruption, it becomes clearer still that we have reached the point where there is no alternative to a broad public inquiry.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/05/26/1085461830675.html (1189 words)

	L.A. Eyes Tobacco Windfall to Pay Police Corruption Liabilities
		LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17—In yet another sign of how this city is reeling from a massive police corruption scandal, Mayor Richard Riordan today proposed using much of the $300 million it expects from settlements with tobacco companies to pay for lawsuits stemming from police abuse.
		Police Chief Bernard C. Parks has begun bickering publicly with Garcetti over the pace and scope of the probe into the scandal, and he also is facing tough new questions from some elected officials.
		Many of the victims of the alleged police abuse are onetime gang members who have remained in prison, even though a tainted conviction was overturned, because they were convicted of other serious crimes.
	washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/18/052r-021800-idx.html (693 words)

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		It is clear from the patterns of police crime -- which usually hits impoverished neighborhoods of color -- that the inherent racism of the war on crime has paved the way for police gangsters.
		A police gang known as the “Morgue Boys” was uncovered operating in Brownsville's 73rd precinct.
		Despite the difficulties in proving police criminality, three San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) narcotics officers were recently indicted by a Grand Jury on charges of perjury, soliciting perjury, wrongful arrest, and stealing from suspects, many of whom were not charged with any crime.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/articles/mar96parenti.htm (1922 words)

	Police corruption guaranteed
		Sign-ups for police exams in Chicago are down almost 700 percent over the past decade despite intensive recruiting at college campuses, military bases and churches throughout the Midwest.
		Police recruiters in cities around the country are having a personnel crisis because of low pay, poor morale and retirement, according to a New York Times report.
		In Schenectady, New York police officers have been giving crack cocaine to addicts for the past six years in exchange for setting up other addicts and low-level dealers, it was learned in July after a two-year FBI investigation.
	www.november.org /razorwire/rzold/25/page24.html (822 words)

	Police Corruption and Police criminals exposed from within.
		I was a police officer with the San Bernardino Police Department in California for over a decade and was shot twice by officers from within the Department on two separate occasions in 1998 while I was on the SWAT team.
		However, when confronted by corrupt activities he pretends to be a bumbling idiot, who has never looked at statutory law or applied case law to any situation (maybe he's not pretending).
		Police officers, prison guards and other government officials who improperly abuse the rights of individual Americans have long been recognized in federal law as a threat to society as a whole.
	www.goodbadcorrupt.com (2794 words)

	Criminal Justice Resources Resources: Police Corruption - Police Integrity
		The obstacles to policing police brutality and investigating and prosecuting cases of police misconduct and several cases that illustrate the thickness of the blue wall of silence are examined.
		Citizens generally believe that all police departments have a squad of officers assigned only to "police the police." This may be tree for large agencies, but not for the vast majority of police departments in the country.
		The National Symposium on Police Integrity was held in Washington, D.C., on July 14-16, 1996, to examine the issues of public trust, public perception, and police integrity.
	www.lib.msu.edu /harris23/crimjust/polcorr.htm (2487 words)

	Police Corruption
		Police corruption increases as more ambiguous and oppressive laws are passed.
		Of course, drug prohibition is a major cause of police corruption.
		Unfortunately, another problem with today's police forces is that the police are investigated by the police.
	www.freecolorado.com /2002/01/police.html (961 words)

	Factbook : Corruption of Law Enforcement Officers
		Corruption caused by the illicit trade in narcotics is especially prevalent in some foreign countries.
		On average, half of all police officers convicted as a result of FBI-led corruption cases between 1993 and 1997 were convicted for drug-related offenses.
		Colombia, with a capacity to produce 580 tonnes of pure cocaine in 2000, is particularly poisoned by the interplay of narcotics and violence, with an estimated one million people internally displaced as a result of battles for territorial control by rebel groups and paramilitary forces.
	www.drugwarfacts.org /corrupt.htm (983 words)

	CER \| Transparency International Czechs Crossing the Thin Blue Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Particularly prone to the problem of corruption are the very same organs meant to combat it: police and law enforcement officials.
		Although most people are keenly aware of the corruption problem, there is an appalling lack of official information about the issue and how it relates to police.
		The selection process was governed by the principle of maximum heterogeneity and targeting several types of institutions (such as the police, police academies, universities or non-governmental organizations).
	www.ce-review.org /01/29/szczuka29.html (2309 words)

	Freedom Campaign
		The police are only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence." That is one of Sir Robert Peel's nine points of policing, and it's true.
		Nobody has ever tried to deny that corruption exists within the police in the United Kingdom, as it does in every country in the world (and, in most, to a far greater degree).
		I would hope and believe it [corruption] is contained somewhere between 100 officers and 250 officers." The Met Anti-Corruption group currently estimates there are around a hundred corrupt officers working in their force.
	freedom.is (989 words)

	POLICE CORRUPTION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
		However one thing is certain, and that is that Police corruption is a serious problem in Britain and that the authorities there refuse to face up to the problem.
		This is due to the fact that the Police Federation (police's union) is firmly against the proposals put forward by senior officers because it refuses to accept there is any problem with the current system already in place, although it rarely ever brings any officer to justice.
		For instance, no more than 20 to 30 police officers on average are ever convicted of a criminal offence every year (out of a total of almost 130,000) and as usual this is only in cases where the accused officer was caught in the act and no cover-up was possible.
	www.smuggled.com /ukcor1.htm (906 words)

	Los Angeles Police Corruption
		police were reported to have shot an unarmed gang
		Police officers were on the line, saying that his house
		He said his arrest was filled with police errors.
	crab.rutgers.edu /~goertzel/corruptioninLA.htm (1567 words)

	Amazon.com: Police, Politics, Corruption: Books: Frank McKetta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		While much of the book relates past events in which the author does not have direct knowledge or participation, it is fascinating to read an expose researched and written by the person who was at the top of the organization.
		He notes that local politicians determine police budgets, hire Police Chiefs, and decide which laws should be enacted and guide the degree to which existing laws should be enforced.
		The more recent questions that McKetta brought up about recent Governors in their relation to the police situtation suggests that perehaps the solutions he offers at the end of his book should be recognized as being feasible to correct a serious problem.
	www.amazon.com /Police-Politics-Corruption-Frank-McKetta/dp/0870126113 (1052 words)

	police corruption
		This fear and alienation in minority communities is based on a history of brutality and corruption.
		While many Chicagoans are aware of the history of police corruption in Chicago during the Prohibition and before, fewer are aware of the serious on-going problems of corruption, racism, and brutality.
		Go directly to the Burge pages or follow the history of the dark side of the CPD from its early days.
	gangresearch.net /cpdhistory.htm (253 words)

	Corruption and injustice
		Two Police officers have been arrested and 22 others summonsed after a three-year undercover operation revealed widespread corruption in the NSW police force.
		The state's police service is set for another major shake-up just four years after the Wood Royal Commission exposed ENDEMIC corruption in the force.
		The Police Integrity Commission will on Monday begin hearing allegations of widespread corruption and misconduct across the force, in particular at commands in Sydney's north.
	injustice.freeservers.com (1173 words)

	POLICE CORRUPTION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
		Australians Against Corruption (AAC) have an enormous dossier of Police corruption in Western Australia that is all out of proportion to the relatively small size of that state's Police force.
		The WA Police force have attempted to ban both books and served a number of vexatious defamation writs on the author.
		The following letter (below) is typical of many received by AAC in Melbourne from victims of Police corruption.
	www.smuggled.com /wapol1.htm (543 words)

	Kauai Police Conspire Against Pinkerton & Get Caught (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Reports from Hawaii police departments reveal just how many officers were disciplined over the last year.
		If you file complaints against Kauai police officers, the complaints will not be sustained because it is too costly for the County of Kauai to accept liability by admitting Kauai Police Officers have violated civil rights.
		In doing so, will ultimately reinstate a sense of trust to the citizens these Police Officers are sworn to protect and serve.
	www.kpinkerton.com (474 words)

	MD POLICE CORRUPTION
		The chief of police for Montgomery County Maryland responded matter of fact:"THE POLICE ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW!"
		-The select group of police under you that are assigned to us - have crossed the line on again every plane possible.
		Tarnishing what is for the most part good - hard working - police officers because of their association with these corrupt cops that are out of control.
	marylandpolicecorruption.com /index.html (388 words)

	Eldoret Police: Community Policing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Matatus in Eldoret simply do not follow traffic rules, pick up fare on roun-abouts, do not even have to use the regular roads and are a general nuisance.
		In this case, Officers names, police ID etc will be appreciated.
		The Community must act in ensuring its own protection and proper police service.
	eldoretpolice.com (230 words)

	Police and Government Corruption Exposed
		Law is wonderful and can cover all boarders, but Corruption stands at the eye's of the beholder.
		Please don't close your eye's so that you can not see, don't you want your children to grow up to be safe and free.
		I was taken into custody at Torrance Police Department in California after asking to speak with internal affairs, yesterday Thursday November 7 2006.
	groups.msn.com /PoliceandGovernmentCorruptionExposed/homepage (340 words)

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