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Corruption By Card: How Police Association Cards Allow Law Enforcement To Cloak Self-Dealing As Discretion, Andrew Kuntz
Corruption By Card: How Police Association Cards Allow Law Enforcement To Cloak Self-Dealing As Discretion, Andrew Kuntz
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
Law enforcement abuse their discretion by providing favorable treatment to individuals that demonstrate a relationship to the law enforcement community. Private organizations affiliated with law enforcement have capitalized on this by creating association cards which are distributed by members to friends, family members, and others. Card holders present the card during encounters with law enforcement to signal that they have a relationship with law enforcement, with the expectation that they will receive favorable treatment. Though the cards have no formal authority behind them, strong norms in the law enforcement community punish officers that fail to honor them. Because the cards …
Transformative Change At Rikers Island And Beyond: The Department Of Investigation’S Campaign To Clean Up The Nyc Department Of Correction, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Transformative Change At Rikers Island And Beyond: The Department Of Investigation’S Campaign To Clean Up The Nyc Department Of Correction, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
Since 2014, Commissioner Mark G. Peters has led the New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) in a wide-ranging campaign to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in the Department of Correction (DOC), focusing primarily on problems in the areas of DOC leadership and the city jails on Rikers Island. This heightened scrutiny came in response to revelations of widespread abuse in New York City’s jails–especially on Rikers Island. As a result of DOI’s efforts, over three dozen correction officers and other DOC staff have been arrested since 2014, and DOC top leadership has been replaced. As recently as February …
Prison Corruption: The Problem And Some Potential Solutions, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Prison Corruption: The Problem And Some Potential Solutions, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
Corruption occurs in the American prison system in a variety of forms. In the most basic version, correction officers accept bribes or sexual favors to smuggle weapons, drugs, or cell phones to inmates, or to provide inmates with other benefits. Other kinds of prison corruption can involve higher-level prison officials. For example, some prison officials have been implicated in pay-to-play schemes with private prisons. In other cases prison supervisors and administrators have been accused of covering up violations by correction officers or others within the prison, such as by shielding human rights abuses.
The Rikers Island Smuggling Bust, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
The Rikers Island Smuggling Bust, Center For The Advancement Of Public Integrity
Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity (Inactive)
Rikers Island is New York City’s primary jail complex, with a daily inmate population of approximately 10,000. The 400-acre complex consists of ten different jails that can hold up to 15,000 inmates in total. Rikers has come under criticism as a rise in violent attacks, between inmates and against corrections officers, has drawn public attention to perceived systemic corruption, abuses, and a culture of violence within the complex.