Police Corruption In America
Police Corruption In America
Abstract
Police corruption can be dated back to the 1890’s. This is still a major problem with many police agencies as of today. There are some cases where the officers are being paid off by the drug dealers. Police corruption can be resolved by tighten supervision, increasing the rules and by the amount of paperwork.
Back in the 1890’s corrupted cops where being paid as little as 20 dollars a month by small vice shops but the monthly fee went as high as $200. At that time Clubber Williams was named king of Tenderloin Corruption. It seems as if the punishment back in those days wasn’t as serve as it is today.
There are a number of cases where …show more content…
These three officers were charged with first degree murder for killing seventeen year old James Brissette.This young man was innocent and unarmed while he was looking for shelter during Hurricane Katrina. The three officers were found guilty of falsifying reports and false prosecution in the conspiracy to cover up the shooting.
In September of 2007 the police chief of Jefferson, Georgia was indicted on 30 counts of theft and invasion of privacy charges. In the indictment he was charged with unlawfully using his access to the Georgia Crime Information Center to run background checks for his wife security business. He was also charged with using city property to benefit his wife business.
Here we have the chief of police involved in corruption so how do we expect the rest of the department to do right when the man in charge is committing such horrible crimes. Whatever happened to leading your troop into the right direction? In this case they was no good leadership but at least the precinct didn’t suffer as a whole because of its superiors …show more content…
The problem with this is that it’s making the police department as a whole looks awful. No good police officer wants to be classified as being dirty because of what they fellow officers are involved with. Once a reputation is ruined it’s hard to recover from it and it also makes the citizens not wanting to trust the police department.
It seems like the police officers get involved in corruption to make more money by helping out drug dealers and also selling drugs. To support his fact is the case of Kurt Steffen a Charleston South Carolina former state trooper. He was a part of a commercial-scale marijuana growing operations. He was growing marijuana on a property he had purchased in Ridgeville South Carolina. His intentions were to grow it for the purpose of him making more money. What was grown was said to be worth thousands of dollars in profits. Steffen was sentenced to five years in prison and he also forfeited his
Abstract
Police corruption can be dated back to the 1890’s. This is still a major problem with many police agencies as of today. There are some cases where the officers are being paid off by the drug dealers. Police corruption can be resolved by tighten supervision, increasing the rules and by the amount of paperwork.
Back in the 1890’s corrupted cops where being paid as little as 20 dollars a month by small vice shops but the monthly fee went as high as $200. At that time Clubber Williams was named king of Tenderloin Corruption. It seems as if the punishment back in those days wasn’t as serve as it is today.
There are a number of cases where …show more content…
These three officers were charged with first degree murder for killing seventeen year old James Brissette.This young man was innocent and unarmed while he was looking for shelter during Hurricane Katrina. The three officers were found guilty of falsifying reports and false prosecution in the conspiracy to cover up the shooting.
In September of 2007 the police chief of Jefferson, Georgia was indicted on 30 counts of theft and invasion of privacy charges. In the indictment he was charged with unlawfully using his access to the Georgia Crime Information Center to run background checks for his wife security business. He was also charged with using city property to benefit his wife business.
Here we have the chief of police involved in corruption so how do we expect the rest of the department to do right when the man in charge is committing such horrible crimes. Whatever happened to leading your troop into the right direction? In this case they was no good leadership but at least the precinct didn’t suffer as a whole because of its superiors …show more content…
The problem with this is that it’s making the police department as a whole looks awful. No good police officer wants to be classified as being dirty because of what they fellow officers are involved with. Once a reputation is ruined it’s hard to recover from it and it also makes the citizens not wanting to trust the police department.
It seems like the police officers get involved in corruption to make more money by helping out drug dealers and also selling drugs. To support his fact is the case of Kurt Steffen a Charleston South Carolina former state trooper. He was a part of a commercial-scale marijuana growing operations. He was growing marijuana on a property he had purchased in Ridgeville South Carolina. His intentions were to grow it for the purpose of him making more money. What was grown was said to be worth thousands of dollars in profits. Steffen was sentenced to five years in prison and he also forfeited his