Dick Simpson Case

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outside of the police department.
2 - When a police officer reports corruption of a fellow police officer, they should receive strict protection from retaliation with their police department.
3 - Make all reports of possible police corruption, confidential until (if) the case goes to trial.
4 - Internal reviews need to be done by people outside of the police department who have the power to bring on subpoenas, and turn complaints into prosecution if they need arises.
They also made a few recommendations for the Chicago Police Department on internal leadership, reforms and also incentives for reporting fellow police officer corruption. One recommendation they offered to help reduce police corruption is make the rules and laws against corruption …show more content…

One of the most important recommendation the researchers made in this group stands out from other researches that have brought up because they say one thing that one hasn't before – if a police officer commits corruption and fellow law enforcement officer (police officer or supervisors), knew of the corruption or was present, they need to be charged the same as the police officer that was directly charged (or fired, depending on the outcome). If this standard was set forth with in law enforcement agencies, the rate of corruption would drop, and the rate of reporting corruption would sky rocket. Why would want to be fired or charged with federal crimes for something a fellow police officer did and they knew about it, but didn't say anything? Researcher, Dick Simpson, brought up an interesting insight into how the fix the police board (that investigate complaints of possible corruption from a police officer). He stated that since it's very obvious a police department like Chicago, their police board isn't working right, or their corruption rate would be nearly as high as it is. He suggested that the current police board …show more content…

Gloria Laycock who is the Head of Policing and Reducing Crime unit, listed numerous ways to help reduce, and while we will cover those, the best recommendation to help reduce corruption was to spend the budget for the police department to hire corruption investigators (pg. 23). For example, New York City Police Department has a budge over $1 billion dollars a year, but none of the money is budgeted to help fight corruption. When they department requested the funding for corruption investigators, and also integrity training for their police officers, they were denied because other departments within the police department were deemed important than investigating their own police officers. Dr. Laycock stated that if police departments actually had corruption investigator within police department, that alone would help corruption of their police officers, it might not stop it completely, but it would let police officers know that there are people out there who are looking for corruption. It was also noted in her research, that police departments should raise the age of recruiting to 23, instead of 21 because most people are considered more mature by that age. Along with raising the recruiting age, she also suggested incorporating more talk of corruption in the training classes for newly hired employees, as well as more ethical training during the classes as well. She noted that a previous research, Goldstein, stated in 1975, that most

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