Similar to US alcohol prohibition of the 1920’s, current drug prohibition legislation breeds police corruption and abuse. ... Police Corruption in Kings County (Seattle), Washington state...
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Police corruption - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Police corruption is a specific form of police misconduct designed to obtain financial benefits and/or career advancement for a police officer or officers in exchange for not pursuing, or selectively...
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Police corruption is a complex phenomenon, which does not readily submit to simple analysis. It is a problem that has and will continue to affect us all, whether we are civilians or law enforcement officers. Since its beginnings, may aspects of policing have changed;
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In the first article,1 some of the major issues dealing with the concept of `police corruption' were explored and a working definition of the term was arrived at: Any illegal conduct or misconduct involving the use of occupational power for personal, group or organisational gain.
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The cancer which is suddenly showing itself in the police corruption scandal enveloping our Rampart Division, is the entirely predictable result of our reflexive and wrong drug prohibition policy. We cannot tolerate it any longer.
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Information about the LAPD corruption scandal ... ; Download the following two LAPD reports regarding the LAPD corruption scandal from ; March 1, 2000 . ... Board of Inquiry into the Rampart; Area Corruption Incident; (PDF format)
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The United Nations Drug Control Program noted the inevitable risk of drug-related police corruption in 1998, when it reported that "wherever there is a well-organized, illicit drug industry, there is also the danger of police corruption."
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The investigation that exposed an allegedly corrupt Virginia sheriff's department began with a package containing vials of a date-rape drug. ... The indictment says the corruption had been going on since 1998. ... Today, in the wake of the indictment, the sheriff's office is being run by the Virginia State police.
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