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  2. Police corruption - Wikipedia

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    A 1902 cartoon depicts a police officer whose eyes are covered with a cloth labelled "bribes" Police corruption is a form of police misconduct in which law enforcement officers end up breaking their political contract and abusing their power for personal gain. This type of corruption may involve one or a group of officers.

  3. New York City Police Department corruption and misconduct

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    The media reported that an interim report, issued by the Mollen Commission in late 1993, showed that "the New York City Police Department had failed at every level to uproot corruption and had instead tolerated a culture that fostered misconduct and concealed lawlessness by police officers," adding that the interim report made "findings that ...

  4. Blue wall of silence - Wikipedia

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    In these departments, police are exposed to a basic training curriculum that instructs on ethical behavior; this instruction is reinforced in seminars and classes annually in some cases. [17] Several campaigns against the blue code of silence or for making it more visible in the public eye have taken place in the United States.

  5. Noble cause corruption - Wikipedia

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    In Police Ethics, it is argued that some of the best officers are often the most susceptible to noble cause corruption. [9] According to professional policing literature, noble cause corruption includes "planting or fabricating evidence, lying or the fabrication and manipulation of facts on reports or through testimony in court, and generally abusing police authority to make a charge stick."

  6. The bill, titled the “Stop Corrupt Gratuities Act,” follows the Supreme Court’s Snyder v. United States ruling earlier this year, which narrowed the scope of what can be considered an ...

  7. Police misconduct - Wikipedia

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    Police misconduct is inappropriate conduct and illegal actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties. Types of misconduct include among others: sexual offences, coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of evidence, spoliation of evidence, police perjury, witness tampering, police brutality, police corruption, racial ...

  8. Memphis police use excessive force and discriminate against ...

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    MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Memphis Police Department routinely engages in policing that violates residents' civil rights and discriminates against Black people, the U.S. Department of Justice said in ...

  9. Criminal justice ethics - Wikipedia

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    Criminal justice ethics (also police ethics) is the academic study of ethics as it is applied in the area of law enforcement. Usually, a course in ethics is required of candidates for hiring as law enforcement officials. These courses focus on subject matter which is primarily guided by the needs of social institutions and societal values. Law ...