Police corruption
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Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct designed to obtain financial benefits and/or career advancement for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively pursuing, an investigation or arrest.
One common form of police corruption is soliciting and/or accepting bribes in exchange for not reporting organized drug or prostitution rings or other illegal activities. Another example is police officers flouting the police code of conduct in order to secure convictions of suspects — for example, through the use of falsified evidence. More rarely, police officers may deliberately and systematically participate in organized crime themselves.
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- People
- Edwin Atherton
- Charles Becker
- Harold Challenor
- John Connolly
- Ali Dizaei
- Antoinette Frank
- John Hatton
- Simon Illingworth
- William King and Antonio Murray
- Robert Leuci
- Terry Lewis
- David Mack
- Haji Mammadov
- Frank McKetta
- Eliot Ness
- Rafael Perez
- Buford Pusser
- Richie Roberts
- Roger Rogerson
- Adrian Schoolcraft
- Jackie Selebi
- Frank Serpico
- Andre Stander
- Topics
- 1992 Los Angeles riots
- Blue Code of Silence
- Copwatch
- False arrest
- Falsification of Evidence
- FBI
- Fitzgerald Inquiry
- Independent Commission Against Corruption
- Intimidation
- Knapp Commission
- Metropolitan Police
- Mexican Drug War
- Operation Countryman
- Operation Guard Shack
- Operation Tiberius
- Organized crime
- Police brutality
- Police misconduct
- Political corruption
- Political machine
- Political repression
- Rampart scandal
- Surveillance abuse
- Wickersham report
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