Police officers that participate in corruption are found to be involved later, when the individual is brought onto the force. The individual that is hired by the police departments don't realize how low their pay is until they get their first paycheck, then soon after, it is likely the officer will then to proceed to get involved in corruption. Corruption is only committed when one or more people are in dire need or money due to financial reasons will their monthly housing payments, their credit cards are due, having problems paying off their car payments. These are only the bare minimum of reasons why officers commit corruption. I feel that if the individual is even screened before the academy, this method will not work. This method will not work due to the fact that if the cadets are clean when their background check comes back, they will not commit corruption up until they realize their true weekly pay, and how much bills are and hoe much they make a week.

The best way to reduce the amount of corruption in the United States is have a high ranking officer conduct evaluations weekly of each officer that seems to be showing sings of little to no corruption. For example, if you are only making a certain set pay amount a week, and the officer during the weekend goes to a sports car dealership, and buys a car worth more then his weekly pay, that would raise flags for me. Yes, maybe that officer had insurance money taking out when his and or her parents passed away, but on a police officers pay, at a good paying department, I found $50,000-$55,000 a year, that comes to if not close to $1,000 a week without accounting for taxes being taken out. By paying close attention to the littlest things that occur, this may uncover a lot of corruption within the police department.

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