Exam 16: Controlling the Police

Opportunities for corruption in American policing are:

Substance abuse by police officers that occurs off duty is not grounds for disciplinary action.

Media portrayals of policing usually depict realistic views of the officer's ability to control force.

Researchers have estimated that fewer than 10 percent of police officers have alcohol abuse problems.

Studies of police decision making have generally found that individual officers do NOT discriminate on the basis of:

Police officers are expected to discriminate and must do so to maintain order.

In general, controls on police misconduct, which are internal to the police agency:

Officers who aggressively seek out opportunities for corruption and receive graft are known as:

Goldstein suggests that the most important source of control over police corruption is the police administrator.

Police discretion is a contributing factor to police corruption, or a source of corruption.