Analysis Of Police Corruption

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York, because that is where I have lived for the past 22 years.
I compiled my information from numerous articles written in the New York
Times over the last 5 years. My definitional infornmation and background
data came from various books cited that have been written on the issue of
police corruption. Those books helped me create a basis of just what the
different types of corruption and deviances are, as well as how and why
corruption happens. The books were filled with useful insite but were not
update enough, so I relied on the newspaper articles to provide me with
the current, and regional information that was needed to complete this
report. 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. 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 ...

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activities: 1) Payoffs to police by essentially non-
criminal elements who fail to comply with stringent statutes or city
ordinances; (for example, inviduals who repeatedly violate traffic laws).
2) Payoffs to police by individuals who continually violate the law as a
method of making money (for example, prostitutes, narcotics addicts and
pusshers, & professional burglars). 3) "Clean Graft" where money is paid
to police for services, or where courtesy discounts are given as a matter
of course to the police. "Police officers have been involved in activities
such as extortion of money and/or narcotics from narcotics viloators in
order to aviod arrest; they have accepted bribes; they have ...

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