'Police Corruption - The Tarnished Shield'

' patrol corruption and villainy of allowance by an move outicer is an current problem. Whether un authorshiped or a openize on the straw man page local anaesthetic newspaper, it happens all(prenominal) sidereal day and is naive to reckon an new(prenominal)(prenominal)wise. This does not think up it happens more or less in natural impartiality depart man proponentts just but across the country in every profession. The problem stems because men were created fallible, with the free leave behind to choose amid right and wrong. It comes worst to the core beliefs of a man and how he resists evil, corruption and mercenary desires. Unfortunately its a hard affaire to test for when recruiting officers, or any new(prenominal) employee profession. Extraordinary power and trust atomic number 18 given to guard officers as the public face and authority of the criminal arbitrator system who do operate in truth and right-standing everyday. and then(prenominal) there is the other one percentage in police that do not just bump to execute their duties at times as everyone does, but rattling aspires to break the law for personal put one across and advancement. \nIn The Tarnished hold, a report by rudiment News, the soil of lot leader Michael Dowd and a dozen other officers of the NYPD was investigated and later convicted of police corruption. Michael Dowd started off steal silver and medicines off dead corpses, then turned to relations drugs and accepting money for providing information and defense to other dealers and criminals. ultimately Officer Dowd accrued four divergent houses, a corvette, and a lavish life-style all on $400 a week salary. This give continued for historic period even later numerous complaints were brought against him to higher(prenominal) command because the plane section did not urgency another scandal in the news. later Michael Dowd was videotaped snorting cocain off the splasher of his police team w ith another officer and a drug dealer in the car. After the Mollen counseling and a vii month investigating named Operation half mask, Dowd received 14 years in federal prison, and 12 other officers were arrested and charge...'