Police Corruption How Bad Is It And How Does It Affect...

Jacquelynn Lefebvre Van Ardoy Schweitzer SEP Period 6 15 September 2014 Police Corruption: How bad is it and how does it affect our perception of the United States legal system? The broad or basic dictionary definition of corruption is dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery (Corruption |Usage Example Sentence, Pronunciation, Web Definition | Google Dictionary.). My definition of corruption is the same, but my definition of corruption in law enforcement is different. This is my definition of corruption in law enforcement; when officers of the law are apart of officer misconduct and corruption which are abuses of their police authority. The misconduct and corruption refer to a wide range of†¦show more content†¦Who would you believe, the alleged criminal in an orange jumpsuit or two well-groomed police officers in uniforms who just swore to God they are telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The honest answer is a lot of people would assume that once a person is arrested for a crime th ey are guilty and that is before they are being officially charged with a crime. People in the U.S. are innocent until proven guilty. Nine times out of ten they did what they are being accused of, but sometimes it just looks really bad. You would have to be crazy to accuse an officer of lying. But the question is still there are police officers undoubtedly more trustworthy than an alleged criminal? No, they are not. Police officers have a tendency toward confabulation [confabulate: to fabricate imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory]. Officers also unsettlingly enough, have an incentive to lie. Now a days with all of the mass incarceration, the police shouldn’t be trusted any more than any other witness. Corruption is not just in law enforcement, it is also in our judicial systems. A common belief of corruption in the judicial system is a judge taking bribes. The judicial corruption definition goes beyond that theory. A judicial system that is corrupt is either not