I believe that being a police officer is a privilege and not just a job. Maybe I feel this way because my grandfather and my father were both Boston cops and that is how they conveyed it to me. It is implied that a police officer will defend the law the best that he or she can. In doing this, it is also implied that he or she will not be contributing to the law breaking that they are meant to prevent. A police officer is the

The one thing I have always wondered about police corruption is, did they catch everyone involved or just a few. I find it hard to believe that something such as this instance of police corruption only involved two people so I called my dad and asked him if he knew anything about it or these two detectives. My dad told me that Walter Robinson was the original bad apple and that the rest of the force knew it. Kenneth Acerra was the first Puerto Rican appointed to a detective because of his ability to speak Spanish as well as English. My dad also told me that if he had to guess, he would speculate that Robinson led Acerra into the wave of corruption. I was also told that Robinson has another partner who my dad is sure was also involved in the corruption. My dad and I went on to discuss why only Robinson and Acerra were arrested and not Robinson’s other partner and he told me that the general thought around the force was that the other partner wasn’t turned in because he possibly was hiding a large sum of cash obtained during the bogus raids which was to be given to Acerra and Robinson once they were relieved of their duties as detectives. None of that was ever proven though.

The theory that explains it better than the rotten-apple theory is the nature of police work. This theory says, “police work exposes officers to many opportunities to be corrupt. Maybe it’s someone offering an officer a bribe such as tickets to a game or money in exchange for not getting a ticket themselves, or maybe some female is flaunting her looks and proposes that her and the officer go on a date just to get out of a ticket. Things like this happen all the time. The second part of this theory being that policing is low-visibility work explains these two detectives better. It says “Detectives work with even less direct supervision than patrol officers. Thus, they face the greatest temptations and have the lowest risk of being caught. ” This theory explains a lot of criminals because most people commit crimes when

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