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Police corruption
Police corruption is a concept of great significance to our daily lives. It tends to make us question the meaning of law and order if the police of all people can get involved in such practices as corruption. Police corruption can thus be defined as police officers’ involvement in activities through which they use their authority and power for personal gains (Cox et al., 298). Police corruption has been on the rise, primarily due to systemic inefficiency, making it very difficult for the people to realize justice even in some fundamental issues in society. Due to the seemingly silent unrest and the police officers’ inability to provide quality services due to their high-profile kinds of misconduct, the mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley, formed the Christopher commission (Cox et al., 299). The commission was given the duty of investigating the reasons behind these high-profile accounts of misconduct and suggest possible solutions to the issue.
The Mollen Commission was formed by former mayor Rudolph Giulian which was supposed to question the accusations of corruption within the new york police department (Cox et al., 299). This evolved questioning investigation of allegations of misconduct, the effectiveness of the anti-corruption mechanisms in place, and is as well as offer recommendations for improvement. These two commissions found almost similar issues present within the new york police department, which led to the high levels of corruption happening. One of the shocking findings was that in both commissions, the police officers usually helped each other in carrying out corruption deals, and at times the administrators knew of these activities. They did nothing about them (Cox et al., 299).
Therefore, the findings of the two commissions could be summarised in that it found out that the problem was within the police department’s internal structure. This also meant that the internal structure had to be dealt with. The Mollen commission suggested that the best way to deal with the issues associated with the police department was to create an external body to focus on police officers’ misconduct.
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Cox, Steven M., et al. Introduction to policing. Sage Publications, 2018.
