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    Police corruption has been a nationwide problem for many years and occurs in various forms around the world. While most officers handle their power responsibly, a small percentage abuse their authority for personal or organizational gain. Studies show the public has little trust in police due to corrupt actions of some officers and whole departments. Police corruption includes bribery and stealing money from drug dealers. While agencies must follow laws, completely preventing corruption may not be possible given individual officers' personalities and actions.

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    Police corruption has been a nationwide problem for many years and occurs in various forms around the world. While most officers handle their power responsibly, a small percentage abuse their authority for personal or organizational gain. Studies show the public has little trust in police due to corrupt actions of some officers and whole departments. Police corruption includes bribery and stealing money from drug dealers. While agencies must follow laws, completely preventing corruption may not be possible given individual officers' personalities and actions.

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    Police corruption has been a nationwide problem for many years and occurs in various forms around the world. While most officers handle their power responsibly, a small percentage abuse their authority for personal or organizational gain. Studies show the public has little trust in police due to corrupt actions of some officers and whole departments. Police corruption includes bribery and stealing money from drug dealers. While agencies must follow laws, completely preventing corruption may not be possible given individual officers' personalities and actions.

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    Police corruption has been a nationwide problem for many years and occurs in various forms around the world. While most officers handle their power responsibly, a small percentage abuse their authority for personal or organizational gain. Studies show the public has little trust in police due to corrupt actions of some officers and whole departments. Police corruption includes bribery and stealing money from drug dealers. While agencies must follow laws, completely preventing corruption may not be possible given individual officers' personalities and actions.

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    INTRODUCTION

    POLICE UNETHICAL BEHAVIOUR: POLICE CORRUPTION


    History has shown us, with great power comes great responsibility. The great power
    aspect has not been much of a problem whereas responsibility has been for police. When officers
    begin training and attending the academy, they soon recognize the immense authority they will
    acquire. Documented facts such as textbooks and reports have shown many officers handle
    control and responsibility, although it’s a small percentage of officers who are corrupt. Due to
    these “rotten apples” and even whole departments being corrupt, gave way to the lack of trust in
    police departments nationwide. Police corruption is defined as the abuse of police authority for
    personal or organizational gains. Corruption comes in many forms and varies in severity.

    Police corruption is a nationwide problem that has been going on for many years. Not
    only is corruption a problem on our own home country, but police practices of corruption go not
    only in Asia but in the whole wide world. Many studies, polls and examinations were taken to
    find out how exactly what the general publics’ opinions of the police are. Officers receive a lot of
    scrutiny over this issue, but for good reason. Corruption was so common in the police unit that
    they had standard procedures to cover it up if something went wrong. Police corruption is a
    complex phenomenon, which does not readily submit to simple analysis. It is a problem that has
    and will continue to affect us all, whether we are civilians or law enforcement officers. Since its
    beginnings, may aspects of policing have changed; however, one aspect that has remained
    relatively unchanged is the existence of corruption. An examination of a local newspaper or any
    police-related publication on any given day will have an article about a police officer that got
    busted committing some kind of corrupt act. Police corruption has increased dramatically with
    the illegal cocaine trade, with officers acting alone or in-groups to steal money from dealers or
    distribute cocaine themselves and these include bribery.

    Will our home country ever be able to rid policing of corruption? Is it possible and
    plausible to mandate a nations law enforcement agencies to follow all the same rules? Well the
    agencies must follow the laws. No matter how many studies are conducted on the different types
    of corruption and criminological theories can only offer so much. Various factors like the
    officer’s personality can cause him or her to become corrupt. We can never truly stop it, It’s
    entirely up to the officer.

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