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CHAPTER 7 – Police Corruption and Responses
CHAPTER 7 CONTENTS
Economic Corruption
Abuse of Authority
Criminal Cops
The Costs of Corruption
Explanations of Deviance
Reducing Police Corruption
Conclusion
Chapter Review
Study Questions
Writing/Discussion Exercises
Key Terms
Ethical Dilemmas
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
1. Describe the types of police corruption (economic corruption and abuse of
authority).
2. Describe individual explanations of corruption and potential solutions.
3. Describe organizational explanations of corruption and potential solutions.
4. Describe societal explanations of corruption and potential solutions.
CHAPTER SUMMARY
This chapter describes some of the unethical behaviors of police officers. It is important,
of course, to emphasize that the vast majority of police officers are honest and
hardworking. However, the important question is why do good officers protect bad
officers? The chapter also briefly describes international examples of corruption and
presents the standard explanations for police corruption.
CHAPTER OUTLINE
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B. Graft
§ Refers to any exploitation of one’s role, such as accepting bribes or protection
money.
§ Examples include taking bribes for changing testimony or “forgetting,” looking
the other way when discovering an illegal act, or taking kickbacks from a lawyer
or tow truck company for sending them business.
§ Officers in the United States rated bribery as the second most serious offense.
Only theft from a crime scene was rated as more serious.
Class Discussion/Activity
What gratuities would you consider acceptable? Have the class do the Acceptable Gratuities
exercise below.
Media Tool
Watch the video about civil forfeiture at this site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mevVt5sHDNA
What is civil forfeiture? How does it work? What are the good and the abusive aspects of this
program? If the police were indeed abusing forfeiture, what type of economic corruption would
this represent?
See Assignment 1
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II. Abuse of Authority
A. Professional Courtesy and Ticket Fixing
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§ The practice of not ticketing an officer who is stopped for speeding or for other
driving violations.
§ Justifications for not ticketing other officers are diverse and creative. One
troubling aspect of professional courtesy for traffic offenses is that the practice
has a tendency to bleed over into other forms of misconduct.
Class Discussion/Activity
Which category of deviant behavior would the class think is higher for cops than for the general
population? Which might be lower? Have the class provide rationales for their answers.
What If Scenario
What if you were a female cop and you experienced sexual harassment? Would you report it?
Where would you draw the line between not reporting a behavior and reporting it to your
supervisor? If you were a male cop, how would you answer the questions?
Media Tool
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter deals with the mistreatment of women and girls
throughout the world in this TED Talk. Do you agree with his reasoning? How does this
impact policing?
https://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_carter_why_i_believe_the_mistreatment_of_women_i
s_the_number_one_human_rights_abuse?language=en
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A. Consent Decrees
§ In addition to possible lawsuits and settlement costs, police departments face the
possibility of being a target of the Department of Justice.
§ From 1994 to 2009, there have been over 70 preliminary investigations, 33 full
investigations, seven consent decrees, and seven memorandums of understanding.
§ Between 2009 and 2015, there have been proportionally even more.
§ Sometimes a police chief or mayor asks for an investigation and review.
§ Consent decrees focus on the department itself rather than the individual officer.
Compliance with consent decrees is expensive for cities and police departments.
§ Other costs include damage to the department’s reputation, a reduction in morale,
and potentially the loss of good officers.
§ An alternative to costly consent decrees is a voluntary agreement entered into
where collaboration between the city and Justice Department replaces an
adversarial relationship.
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C. Societal Explanations
§ Lax community standards over certain types of behavior (gambling, prostitution)
and lack of support from prosecutors and the courts (or corruption at that stage of
the system) leads to police corruption.
§ We also ask the police to take care of social problems, such as the homeless, even
if they have to step outside the law to do so.
§ The police role as enforcer in a pluralistic society is problematic. If the police do
not represent all groups, their authority is seen as oppressive.
Class Discussion/Activity
Have the students rate the explanations offered for deviance from those that explain the most to
the least. Students should be prepared to explain their rating system.
What If Scenario
What if you were a supervisor, shift commander, or precinct captain? How would you try to be a
“good” leader? Do have you think you possess the personal characteristics to be a good leader?
Media Tool
What is PTSD? How prevalent is it in police work? What are the main points of the
video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j00XI0I8eUA
Class Discussion/Activity
Angie’s List rates contractors, Rotten Tomatoes rates movies, Rate My Professor rates, well, you
can probably guess. Is there something inherently wrong with rating police officers? Where you
work now, would you like to have your job performance available for all to see?
What If Scenario
What if you were a supervisor responsible for reducing deviant behavior and could choose only
one remedy? Which approach do you think would be the most effective way of reducing
deviance? Explain.
Class Discussion/Activity
Assume there is a strict policy against accepting gratuities. With that in mind, complete the
Ethical Dilemmas exercise with the class.
KEY TERMS
gratuities: Items of value received by an individual because of his or her role or position
rather than because of a personal relationship with the giver.
graft: Any exploitation of one’s role, such as accepting bribes, protection money, or
kickbacks.
rotten-apple argument: The proposition that the officer alone is deviant and that it was
simply a mistake to hire him or her.
integrity testing: “Sting” operations to test whether or not police officers will make
honest choices.
internal affairs model: A review procedure in which police investigators receive and
investigate complaints and resolve the investigations internally.
civilian review/complaint model: The use of an outside agency or board that includes
citizens and monitors and/or investigates misconduct complaints against police.
ETHICAL DILEMMAS
Situation 1
You are a rookie police officer on your first patrol. The older, experienced officer tells
you that the restaurant on the corner likes to have you guys around, so they always give
free meals. Your partner orders steak, potatoes, and all the trimmings. What are you
going to do? What if it were just coffee at a convenience store? What if the owner refused
to take your money at the cash register?
Utilitarianism would also condemn the practice of ignoring organizational rules. Even
though it might result in a net utility for the officers and for the business owners, the
department suffers from the hypocrisy and the community suffers from (perhaps) unequal
patrol coverage and a lowered perception of police.
The situation is complex because it seems so innocuous and the officer who refuses to
take gratuities looks like a jerk. Officers might deal with the situation in various ways –
some leave a tip equal to the price of the meal; some send the money to the restaurant
after the fact. Dealing with the partner is a different problem: Some officers take their
lunch with them to avoid the situation; Some make it clear before the situation that they
don’t accept free lunches and deal with the partner’s reaction. Classroom discussions are
most interesting when there are police officers and restaurant workers in the same class.
In this situation each is able to hear the other’s perspective in the neutral setting.
CLASSROOM ASSIGNMENTS
1. Have students do a little informal research on local policies regarding gratuities. (CO
1)
2. Have students describe in a one-minute paper the individual explanations of
corruption and then discuss potential solutions. (CO 2)
3. Have students describe in a one-minute paper the organizational explanations of
corruption and discuss potential solutions. (CO 3)
4. Watch the movie Serpico and discuss the causes of corruption displayed in the movie
and consider how such a situation can be prevented. (CO 1-4)
EXERCISE
Acceptable Gratuities?
Indicate which of the following—if offered freely with no apparent exchange expected—
are ethically acceptable. Then compare your answers with others.
free coffee only on duty on or off duty
free gum or candy only on duty on or off duty
half-price meal only on duty on or off duty
free meal only on duty on or off duty
free dry cleaning only for uniform unrestricted
free admission to clubs n/a off duty
free lottery tickets only on duty on or off duty
expensive merchandise only on duty on or off duty
Rain blurred the landscape for all of the half-hour run from Tjibatoe
down to Garoet, and we lost the panorama of splendid mountains
that surround the great green Garoet plain, embowered in the midst
of which is the town of Garoet, a favorite hill and pleasure-resort of
the island. We did catch glimpses now and then, however, of dark
mountain masses looming above and through the clouds, and of
flooded rice-fields and ripening crops, with scarecrows and quaint
little baskets of outlooks perched high on stilts, where young Davids
with slings lay in wait for birds. Boys leading flocks of geese, and
boys astride of buffaloes made other pictures afield, and in the
drizzling rain of the late afternoon we were whirled through the
dripping avenues to the Hotel Hork, home of Siamese royalties and
lesser tourists, health- and pleasure-seekers, who visit this volcanic
and scenic center of the Preanger regencies.
Our sitting-room porch at this summer hotel, with an endless
season, looked on a garden, whose formal flower-beds, bordered
with stones and shells, classic vases, and other conventions of their
kind, reminded one at once of by-places in Europe; and so also did
the bust of Mozart and the copy of Thorwaldsen’s “Venus,”—until
one noted their protecting palm- and mango-trees. This Garoet hotel
is one of the institutions of Java, and the Vrouw van Hork and her
excellent Dutch housekeeping are famed from Anjer Head to
Banjoewangi. All the colonial types were represented at the long
table d’hôte, and every language of Europe was heard. There were
always nice neighbors at table, able and anxious to talk English, and
the cheery Dutch ladies were kindness and friendliness personified.
At no other resort on the island did we receive such a pleasant
impression of the simplicity, refinement, and charm of social life in
the colony. But, although two thousand feet above sea-level, in a
climate of mildly tempered eternal spring, the ladies all wore the
sarong and loose dressing-sacque in the morning, as in scorching
Batavia or lowland Solo. Even on damp and chilly mornings, when a
light wrap was a comfortable addition to our conventional muslin
gowns, the Garoet ladies were bare-ankled and as scantily clad as
the Batavians; and there were shock and real embarrassment to me
in seeing in sarong and sacque the dignified elderly matron who had
been my charming dinner neighbor the night before.
There is an interesting passer at Garoet, and besides the lavish
display of nature’s products, there are curious baskets brought from
a farther valley, which visitors compete for eagerly. The town square,
or overgrown village green, is faced by the homes of the native
regent and the Dutch resident, and by the quaint little messigit, or
Mohammedan mosque. The last mufti, or head priest of the prophet,
at Garoet was a man of such intelligence and liberality that he had
but one wife, and allowed her to go with face uncovered, to learn
Dutch, and to meet and freely converse with all his foreign visitors,
men as well as women. Travelers brought letters to this mufti and
quoted him in their books, but since his death the more regular,
illiberal order has ruled at Mohammedan headquarters.
The great excursion from Garoet is to the crater of Papandayang,
a mountain whose extended lines (fifteen miles in length by six in
breadth) match its syllables; which has been in vigorous eruption
within a century; and which still steams and rumbles, and, like the
Goenoeng Goentor, or “Thunder Mountain,” across the plain, may
burst forth again at any moment. At the last eruption of
Papandayang, in 1772, there was a great convulsion, a solid mass of
the mountain was blown out into the air, streams of lava poured
forth, and ashes and cinders covered the earth for seven miles
around with a layer five feet thick, destroying forty villages and
engulfing three thousand people in one day. The scar of the great
crater, or “blow-out hole,” near the summit of the mountain, is still
visible from the plain, and the plumes and clouds of steam
ascending from it remind one of its unpleasant possibilities. We
made a start early one rainy morning, and drove twelve miles across
the plain, along hard, sandy white roads, continuously bordered with
shade-trees. The frequent villages were damp and cheerless, and
the little basket houses, that the people weave as they would a hat,
were anything but enviable dwellings then. The sling-shooters’
sentry-boxes throughout the fields—perches where men or boys sat
to pull sets of strings that reached to scarecrows far away—
suggested too much of clammy, rheumatic discomfort to seem as
picturesque as usual—strange little Malay companion pieces to the
same boxes on stilts that one sees perched in the rice-fields of Hizen
and the other southern provinces of Japan.
TRANSPLANTING RICE.