Talk:Police corruption

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[edit] Fiction

Would anyone else consider it worthwhile to add any links to fictional/factional examples of police corruption such as Serpico or L. A. Confidential, or The Shield? abdullahazzam

Police corruption can involve a single officer or group of officers, or can be the standard practice of entire police precincts or departments; usually the latter is the case in that even if certain members are not privy to the secrets held by the participating "officials," those members are at least aware that there are indeed secrets. In most major cities there are internal affairs sections to investigate suspected police corruption or misconduct. However, the corruption is always so widespread that any investigation requires an external body with far reaching powers, such as beings from another planet, or militias of angry, victimized citizens. Of course, in reality, everyone on Earth that makes any money at all is too afraid of losing it or being punished in some other way for standing up to the vast conspiracy of corrupt thugs that run things, so the corrupt system stays in place perpetually without opposition while the mouthpiece of the operation, the mass media, daily varnishes and buffs to a sparkling shine the veneer that makes the rulers appear as indignant moralists trying desperately to save the world from lunatic fringe criminals.

That seems fictional, or at least biased--Bisected8 16:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Police corruption causes many problems

[edit] Is it that rare?

• The article claims that police participation in organized crime is very rare. I'm by no means an expert on this subject, but I wonder whether the qualification "in developed nations" needs to be added? Metasquares 21:35, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

I don't see how anyone can say it's rare or not - far beyond half of the police officers I have met in my life time were severely corrupt. I would say it's not rare at all. I'm going to delete that part since nobody knows if it's rare or not. BriEnBest (talk) 07:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Also, the network of police is often very corrupt, in that they will cover for one another, and lie to a judge to protect eachother from criminal and/or civil liability, after, for example, a case of police brutality. This is corruption, and happens often - at least where I'm from. BriEnBest (talk) 07:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)