In the 1970’s the Knapp Commission was created by New York City’s mayor, John V. Lindsay as an approach to stop the alleged police corruption that was going on. As well as recently many police departments have developed Internal Affairs divisions to basically enab

Following that horrific tale; March 12, 1996 “cops opened fire, letting loose a total of 122 rounds. The SWAT team was looking for drugs and opened fire on a 72 year old man with no criminal record. The police’s justification for killing Richard Brown awoken from his sleep in the middle of the night is because he was “stumbling toward them in the darkness”. And “At least five police maintained that Richard had shot at them twice before they fired back”. A gun was planted on him by the Miami police.

With the Knapp Commission, Internal Affairs, FBI, IRS, and the hundreds more of committees and divisions of departments that handle police misconduct it is a question of; with all of these specialty forces trying to put a stop to the police corruption, why is it still present? “…after the scandal and the resultant investigatory commission, the department vigorously fights corruption and prevents large-scale, organized corruption from resurfacing. However, approximately twenty years later, it will resurface again” (Dempsey, 1999, p.292). This theory states that corruption really doesn’t have any solution, for this particular case police misconduct will always be an issue.

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