Imagine:
You’re driving home late at night; your wife is holding your hand and you feel as though nothing bad can occur in this moment. That’s when it happens... flashing lights, that ever so familiar siren; you’ve been pulled over. You start to worry, you think to yourself “I only had one beer, but what if he smells it on my breath and assumes I’ve had more”. There is a slow tap on your window. The cop goes through the usual steps and you start to calm down than he asks if you’ve been drinking. You turn bright red and start to stammer under the nerves. He looks at you, looks at your license… that’s when he tells you that this can all be handled very easily. You might even catch him glancing at your wife with a greedy look in your eyes… No good can come out of this situation.
Acts of police corruption can like this one aren’t as non-existent as we like to believe. Because the United States Has over 20,000 police agencies and no centralized control of these agencies police corruption and misconduct is able to go rampant throughout the U.S. As a citizen of the U.S. I firmly believe, and have seen from personal experience, the effect that an officers act of corruption can have on an agency as a whole. Citizens begin to loser faith in their protectors when those same individuals start to turn on the people they are supposed to be protecting. Police corruption is an immoral organism that slowly grabs ahold of police agencies throughout the country and squeezes until all presence of authority has been removed from the law enforcement agencies in our country.
