New York Police corruption

Police incompetence is a disease that has spread and killed over time. About every week, there is coverage or a report in the media about police complicity in an incident of misconduct. The New York Police Department (NYPD) is well-known for setting a high standard for corruption in comparison to other states in the United States. Police misconduct is immoral, unethical, and even illegal. It entails abusing authority and public confidence for personal benefit. This literature is devoted to exposing New York City's corps abuse. A large sampling population was obtained from the general population and investigated using qualitative approaches. Results of the findings were analyzed and at the end of the research process.
Research objective
To find out how corps in the New York City (NYPD) conduct the act of corruption
To find out various types of corruption that police get involved in.
Literature review
The art of corruption has been trending in the police department since the inception of policing services. Albeit there is no concise or agreed definition of police corruption, available literature breaks it down to denote misuse of public office and power for personal gains. Scholars have uncovered the veil in the police unit to expose some of the acts of dishonesty and mischief that can be boiled down to minor thefts and murder (Burke and Edward 5). The police department has proved to be a fertile ground to nurture and grow the act of corruption to a dangerous level. Police corruption robs of public resources and funds and also plummet citizen trust towards the police services. Police are paid by the states to dispense local patronage to all citizens at no fee at all.
Police corruption takes many forms but the most common ones are bribery and extortion. Bribery in the context of police corruption involves giving valuable items with an aim of influencing an officer. A definition to this is where a police accept a bribe not to arrest a suspect. On the other hand, extortion is the act of threatening a person or instilling fear to that person with an aim of obtaining money or property. Through treats, police officers can have someone falsely prosecuted refuses to give money.
In 2013, the first case of NYPD corruption in gun licensing garners public attention and raised hot debates. It involved a scenario where gun licenses landed on all people who were willing to pay a bribe (Charron et al 98). The police were accused of taking payoffs and expediting gun permits to individuals who were ready to part with their money. On top of this, neither background checks were neither conducted nor was follow-up done to the individual who applied for the permit. The fundamental question as to whether a person really needed a gun was not important anymore. In this context, one license landed into a person who was subject to domestic violence and who threatened to kill his contemporaries. This was so irresponsible of the police who choose to turn a blind eye to the dangers that these acts posed to the general public.
Since the inception of the first professional American police in 1845, the police department has always been wrought a couple of elements which paves way for the act of corruption. The then police work exhibited some entrepreneurial elements which leveled the ground for corruption perpetrators. Police earned lucrative payoff for reclaiming stolen goods and properties. They routinely provided special treatments to businesses and citizens who paid well over other. This act greatly hurt the legitimacy of the police service and the execution of their duties. Since then, NYPD persistently carried along the tools from the old past to the present platforms. The simple acts of receiving rewards for work well done have graduated into a giant level of the present corruption in the spectrum. Instead of rewards they now receive bribes and conduct extortions from the citizens they ought to be protecting.
Corrupt officials extort money from gullible citizens in exchange for some favor, which ought to be provided on a free basis (Yanyan et al 15). The fundamental futures of police corruption is that it is forbidden by the, it is amended in the whole arc of misuses of resources and involves personal gain of the officers. Arguably, the act hurts both the community and the entire police department in equal measures. Additionally, criminal activates flourish because they are cultivated instead of being wiped out for good. The main idea here is that the protected illegal activities soon turn out to be a good source of income for all stakeholders involved.
According to report, one police commander of NYPD publicly admitted that his wealth worth of over 9 million dollars was made from city business elites. Over the years, he established a strong bond with prominent business affiliates as well as political bull, which in return paid him lump sums for the special treatment he accorded to them. in that error, people did not mind of police corruption so long as their needs and wants were well catered for. Today, research shows the existence of a strong correlation between the police authority and business influences. The two are knotted together into one complex ball that is hard to know when one ends and the other begins. This is a clear indication that police abuse of power is and has always been present.
So far, there is no stringent measure to curb police corruption. However, cleansing the whole police department can help a great deal to castigate the acts of corruption. This should be done by the top officials or the way to the junior staffs. If the chief commander exhibits unethical or unlawful characters, the vice is likely to pass on to the subordinates. Also, the hiring process should ensure only the very best are selected and that only those who are ethically certified should secure a position in the police department. Additionally, there must be clear systems of balance and checks within the organization. All individuals must be held accountable for their action. Public complaints should be handled and dealt with professionally.
Research methodologies
In this context, qualitative research methodologies were adopted and utilized. Interviewing of successful candidates were conducted and recorded in a tape, whereby the transcription process was done later. Also, participants filled in questioners containing both open ended and close ended questions pertaining police corruption. In the interview, the participants were allowed the freedom to direct the conversation. In another word the interview was directed by the flow of the conversation. Confidentiality was maintained in the whole process to avoid leaking crucial information of the participant
Sample size
The sample size comprised of one hundred participants who are believed to be a true representative of the larger population. The participants were both male and female in different age groups. Successful candidates were involved in police corruption in one way or the other. The participants also included some police officers who were involved in the act of corruption.
Research findings
Surprisingly, 90% of the participants agreed that police corruption is so rampant in the New York City. A substantial number of participants agreed that they bribed a police officer to get away with an offence that they were involved in. also, 20% of the participants accepted that police officer extorted money from them by wrongly accusing them of a crime they did not commit. Also, 40% of participants said that they bribed so as to preserve some favors with the police and some admitted that they were allowed to have properties that they should not have been allowed had corruption been no allowed. At least all police in the sample agreed to have committed the act of corruption during their time in service in the police department.
Conclusion
Corruption is a vice that has continued to terrorize police department at in the New York City over the decades. Corruption takes many forms where the most conscious ones are the act of bribery and extortions. It vies as misuse of power and authority to get personal needs. Police corruption causes harm to both the public and the police department (NYPD) at large



Work cited
Burke, Ronald J., and Edward C. Tomlinson. Crime and corruption in organizations: Why it occurs and what to do about it. CRC Press, 2016.
Charron, Nicholas, et al. "Careers, Connections, and Corruption Risks: Investigating the impact of bureaucratic meritocracy on public procurement processes." The Journal of Politics 79.1 (2017): 89-104.
Xiao, Yanyan, et al. "The Corruption Footprints of Nations." Journal of Industrial Ecology (2017).