Bloomberg's heavy emphasis on eliminating gun trafficking, and New York's crack-down in general, eight of their own police force members were arrested and charged with accepting bribes in return for illegally transporting firearms into the state. The corrupt group was comprised of five officers currently on the force, three who previously retired, a New Jersey correction officer, a former New York City Sanitation Department police officer, and two other unidentified men. ... One of the corrupt officers, Ali Oklu, stated in a wire-tapped phone call, "As long as we're not tying ...

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As its title would suggest, "The Jerilderie Letter" portrays Ned Kelly as the wronged party, victimised, threatened and set up by a corrupt police force, and whose actions are completely justified. ... One cannot help but feel that Kelly has been targeted by a corrupt police force who can find no better way to pass their time than to harass the Kelly family and fabricate misdemeanours so as to arrest Ned Kelly. ... Kelly does admit to horse stealing: "no person had anything to do with the stealing and selling of the horses but me and George King" , but justifies these actions with the reasonin...

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Not only had some of their cops become robbers, but also the crimes had to be uncovered by a suburban police force, which proved to be very embracing to the City of New York. ... The Mollen Commission has not uncovered a citywide organization of payoffs among the 30,000-member force as the Knapp Commission did 21 years earlier. ... Dowd described how nearly the entire precinct patrol force would meet at times at an isolated location, where they would drink, shoot off guns in the air and plan their illegal drug raids. ... The powers given by the state to the police to use force have always caus...

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Also, let's not undermine the fact that what the media portrays is accurate, and there are many instances of corrupt officials in the justice system abusing their authority that the news does not capture. ... It obviously, should not be this way, nor will it remain this way, if law enforcement is able to straighten up its agenda, so that it truly is a "Crime fighting force" and not a "People of different color fighting force"....

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This can come in the form of lying, accepting bribes, robbing drug dealers, selling of drugs, or turning a blind eye when a fellow officer is using excessive force. ... The first type include issues that center around integrity such as taking bribes, giving perjured testimony, or inflicting harm on suspects through use of illegal force. ... Additional research presents that the way in which laws are enforced (i.e. forcing one party in a domestic abuse situation to leave or arrest that individual in front of everyone in the neighborhood) affects the overall perception of their legitimacy and th...

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According to Kevin Wright (1999) "an agency that is dragged down by excessive use of force, corrupt and illegal behavior, and unethical practices will invariably find an unhealthy criminal justice organization. ... The function of the police is to make sure that peace and order is established thus they are empowered to use force if necessary to attain their goals. ...

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endency to dismiss such cases on the basis that revelations would surely corrupt public morals! ... Consent now is widely held to mean a consent freely and voluntarily given by a person with the mental cognition to give such consent, and without in any way affecting or limiting the meaning otherwise attributable to those words, a consent is not freely or voluntarily given if it is obtained by force, threat, intimidation, deception or fraudulent means. ...

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