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2000 words research essay on Police corruption. i have attached the essay plan i submitted. the research essay should be on that same topic and sage harvard referencing should be used.
Corruption is a necessary and unavoidable aspect of police work.
It is often said that a rotten apple spoils the barrel. Professor Punch’s thesis can be neatly summed up by drawing on the metaphor of the corrupt officer as a ‘rotten apple’. He rejects this simile and asserts that it is rarely the case that serious corruption can be pinned exclusively upon one or a few individual officers. He argues that it is not the ‘apple’ that is ‘rotten’, but the ‘barrel’, if not the orchard or, in some cases, the whole fruit industry. In other words, a single corrupt police officer does not make the whole police department corrupt, rather it is the responsibility of the department to make sure corrupt people are not to be designated as police officers. Police corruption is systemic. More than that, it is universal amongst police organizations. If you haven’t suffered a corruption scandal recently, then it’s because you haven’t looked for one! (Punch, M., 2009).
In addition to that, the Rodney King case was not an isolated example: in Britain, the quality of evidence required to bring a prosecution against a police officer who is alleged to have committed a serious offence in the course of his or her duty is officially acknowledged to be much higher than that required for other cases. The reason is that juries are unwilling to convict police officers. I suspect that this is true elsewhere. (Waddington, P.A.J., 2010) The problem will only be solved when the genuine professionalization of policing offers not only the opportunity to greatly improve the competence with which officers serve the public but also the accompanying pride in that professional standing which will create and sustain a bulwark against anyone who is tempted to sully it. (Waddington, P.A.J., 2010)
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