Zeraph

I'm sad to see this forum dieing. Its good to question authority and such.

Anyways, how far does corruption go into the police force? For instance the top brass has a lot of leverage to change their subservient cops viewpoints because of several reasons. (and I know this because I have a cop in my family.) Most end up doing it for the great retirement package (if they stay long term, which is mostly what we're concerned with in this thread, older/long term cops). And NO cop wants to risk that. The other is the obedience training they go through in the academy.

I know all about their methods and police academy tactics. For instance one instance to instill fear and control (in a particular academy, not saying all do this, but I got this first hand from a cop that went there) the trainers would put an extra bag of chips or candy bar in the vending machines. So when someone bought something they would get two things. Most would take both (after all, how do you even return it?) The trainees that did, got kicked immediately, in front of everyone, with as much embarrassment piled on as possible to influence the other trainees. Basically they said taking it was an instance of theft, and lying, and cheating. Basically confusing their standard (what normal people learn) moral compass. This is just the start.

Now this seems good at first, but what happens to that perfect obedience when an upper tier cop eventually tells em to take a bribe or some such? They have the perfect system in place to create an ongoing corruption, similar to an organization like the mob.

And then there are cops that end up dead in hit and runs and such. Its a huge story, but then suddenly goes away. They almost never find the (true) killer, after all it'd be easy for them to frame someone. Could that have been a cop rebelling against the corruption? Maybe maybe not.