SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: New York City Police Department, Police Legitimacy, Knapp Commission

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Corruption self interested corruption is the most common, done because officer wants to secure something that it towards their advantage and can benefit from. Officer does make an arrest, but makes a deal afterwards (money to take the handcuffs off) (also known as shakedowns) continuous issues of the code of silence, not willing to talk about it. 1994 mollen commission investigation into conduct, realized things were getting worse street cosps actively going out and protecting dealers from other dealers, Widespread issues with stealing drugs for personal or resale use. 2001 julian fantino asks john neily (rcmp) to head investigation. Neily says there are serious problems in toronto police testimonies from people in the street, missing evidence, questionable paperwork. Winter 2004: 6 drug squad officers charged in toronto. All 6 charged with corruption and criminal activity (bribery, theft of narcotics and jewellery, extortion, obstruction of justice) One of the people involved was the son of a police chief.