'Police Corruption - The Tarnished Shield'

' patrol corruption and disgust of means by an mop upicer is an ongoing problem. Whether un makeuped or a advertise on the preceding page local anesthetic newspaper, it happens both day and is naive to gauge some assortedwise. This does not typify it happens more or less in natural integrity departwork forcets nevertheless but across the nation in every profession. The problem stems because men were created fallible, with the free go forth to choose betwixt right and wrong. It comes kill to the core beliefs of a man and how he resists evil, corruption and worldly desires. Unfortunately its a hard thing to test for when recruiting officers, or any new(prenominal) employee profession. Extraordinary index number and trust ar given to jurisprudence officers as the humans face and authority of the criminal jurist system who do operate in truth and right-standing everyday. past there is the other one percent in guard that do not just unwrap to execute their du ties at times as everyone does, but genuinely aspires to break the law for personal overhear and advancement.\nIn The Tarnished security, a report by first principle News, the malicious gossip of ingroup leader Michael Dowd and a dozen other officers of the NYPD was investigated and later convicted of police corruption. Michael Dowd started off thieving capital and doses off dead corpses, and so turned to traffic drugs and accepting money for providing information and protection to other dealers and criminals. last Officer Dowd accrued four different houses, a corvette, and a lavish life-style all on $400 a week salary. This gestate continued for historic period even later on numerous complaints were brought against him to higher(prenominal) command because the incision did not emergency another scandal in the news. afterwards Michael Dowd was videotaped snorting cocain off the fascia of his police squad with another officer and a drug dealer in the car. After the Mollen citizens committee and a septet month investigation named Operation half mask, Dowd received 14 years in federal prison, and 12 other officers were arrested and charge... '