NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT:CORRUPT PRACTICES
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This research examines the policy and policy application of the New York City Police Department in relation to corrupt practices by members of the Department. The focus of this research is on the investigations conducted by the Mollen Commission, with a more specific emphasis on the findings of those investigations, the conclusions drawn by the Commission, and the recommendations made by the Commission. Information from other sources related to the facts of the situation, and the conclusions and recommendations of others, however, are also reviewed. This other information is relevant and significant because not everyone agrees with the Mollen Commission's conclusions and recommendations. Indeed, some people in the Department even argue with the findings of the Commission.The current corruption scandal involving the New York City Police Department "began to spill out" in 1992 (Milton Mollen, 1994, p. 23) with the arrest Officer Michael Dowd, a 75th Precinct "rodentlike cop who snorted cocaine off the dsahboard of his patrol car and made $8,000 a week selling drugs and protection" (Pooley, 1994, p. 18. In the wake of this arrest, then Mayor David Dinkins asked "former judge Milton Mollen to begin a corruption probe" of the New York City Police Department" (Pooley, 1994, p. 18). The two-year investigation uncovered corruption that was much more perevasive than most peo
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ce corruption "in a formal, legal sense requiring action, . . . they certainly knew the police force had a large number of officers who simply" weren't up to the job (Rubinstein, 1994, p. A27). The Commission found that more than one-half of New York City police officers have been hired since 1985, the year in which the Department's personnel director was fired for stating publicly that the Department was hiring functional illiterates. A year later in 1986, then "Commissioner Benjamin Ward scrapped the written test for sergeant when it did not produce enough black candidates, and appointed many who had failed the test" (Rubinstein, 1994, p. A27). Thus, while a general recognition exists that New York City needs more police officers than are presently on the force, there is also a growing realizatio that if the force is doubled under the policies now in force, the Department will be in twice as much trouble 20 years down the road (Rubinstein, 1994, p. A27).
Conclusions of the Mollen Commission
and Other Relevant Conclusions
The Mollen Commission concluded that "senior officers repeatedly ignored allegations" against police officers "or blocked efforts to check" the allegations for accuracy (Treatser, 1994b, p. A1). The beha
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