CRM 2305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Organized Crime, Regulatory Offence, Internal Control
8 Dec 2017
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What is bad policing: oldest and most persistent problem of policing. Impacts of bad policing: undermines the integrity of policing, corruption may conceal other types of criminal activity, undermines the effectiveness of the criminal justice system. As officers routinely testify in court there is significant damages done to credibility: damages police professionalism, dishonesty and lying to protect other officers, undermines public confidence in the police. The police organization: leadership, need to start at the chiefs and go down the ladder, when chiefs set examples there is less deviance. Corrupting organizations: phase 1, corruption involves isolated individuals or few isolated groups, phase 2, virtually all officers are engaged in corrupt acts, phase 3. Involve pervasive organized corruption: virtually all officers are engaged in corrupt acts. Accountability structures: political accountability, to governing authorities, legal accountability, to the law through the courts and judiciary, accountability to administrative agencies. Models of investigations of police officer misconduct: dependent model, the practice of police investigating themselves.
