not someone else's). Adopted as a consistent policy, the police officer allowing the latter activity would be in arrogant abuse of the law - an obvious corruption. Yet . . . The individual members of society as a whole generally expect themselves to be allowed the privilege of being "an exception to the rule" when stopped by a police officer under those very circumstances (Holcomb).
It is obvious, then, that the specifics and absolutes of corruption are unworkable elements to consider when attempting to analyze corruption in terms of law enforcement. Rather, one could consider the concept of dividing corruption into "levels" of culpability. By observing the matter in terms of always-modified generalizations (stopping far short of making absolute statements), one might be able to consider police corruption in blocks of stimulus-response that can be dealt with in concrete terms.
The entry level of corruption in law enforcement is the so-called "street cop" level. It involves the act of an individual police officer accepting
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