Example Of Police Corruption

The one specific type of unethical police behavior that I believe that should be more examined is police corruption. “Police corruption is a form of police misconduct in which law enforcement officers break their social contract and abuse their power for personal or department gain.” I have chosen this topic because there are some many types of police corruption and ways to become a corrupted police officer. Some types of police corruption are accepting bribes, selective enforcement, framing, theft and burglary, withholding evidence, and etc. So many types of ways for corruption make it easy to fall a victim to becoming one. Falling victim to police corruption could be difficult or easy depending on your ethics and moral values. It is hard …show more content…
Joseph Miedzianowski was not only a police officer he was also a “kingpin drug dealer.” This is a perfect example of the corruption in police departments by an officer abusing his power or using it to “infect a trusting society.” Joseph Miedzianowski betrayed his whole department, the officers he worked with, family and the whole police force. Joseph Miedzianowski would use his power to shake down drug dealers and sell drugs back on the streets to benefit him. He would use his power to protect the drug organizations that he was affiliated with and to also provide ammunition for them. The judge stated that the badge that Mr. Joseph Miedzianowski carried was not for honor or dedication to the principles, but for a camouflage. Joseph Miedzianowski used many of his informants to help him in a partnership in his Miami to Chicago drug trades. You may think that what he did was very corrupt and he should just stay in prison but proves that it can get worst. Once in prison he was to fake an illness so he would be transferred to a less-secure medical institution. Once he was there, he was to ask an inmate for an AK-47 assault rifle and missile launcher for his escape plan. Which makes you think before he even became a police officer maybe he was just corrupt from the start. Those sources came from the Tribune. The judge describes why Joseph Miedzianowski received such a tremendous amount of time to be served. The judge said he wanted to make a statement or deliver a message to those 13,600 officers in Chicago that if they are tempted to act in certain manor, then they should think about how former officer Joseph Miedzianowski will be living the rest of his life in a small room. The judge wanted those officers to think about if doing what Joseph Miedzianowski really worth