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pad," one busted cop told the
commission.
And there is a pattern, in
New York and elsewhere, for
the police to protect their own,
to cover up--for the
commander to identify less
with the letter of the law than
with the morale and reputation
of his division.
"ONE OF OUR hopes,"
says Whitman Knapp, the
62-year-old Wall Street lawyer
who heads the New York
panel, "is that it will permeate
the department that the ideal
to be followed is integrity, not
just an image of integrity."
The cost of police
corruption is not merely in the
tax it takes on the moral fervor
of a community. There is a real
dollars-and-cents charge, too:
-Bars and restaurants pass
the cost on to the customer for
their payoffs to avoid building
violations or to have brawls
-r reported as having taken place
in the street outside their
locations, not inside, which
might endanger their liquor
license.
-The payoff for illegal
parking of delivery trucks
sooner or later gets tacked
onto the price of the goods
delivered.
-Building costs are artifically
inflated. According to the
Knapp Commission, for
instance, some 5 per cent of
construction charges in New
York City represent bribes by
contractors to police for
overlooking building ordinances.
ONE OF THE stranger
aspects of police corruption is
that, as a general rule, the
public accepts it so placidly.
That holds true even for those
who dislike the police, who
identify them with brutality
toward political demonstrators
and blacks.
Philadelphia has a citizen
watchdog group called The
Coalition of Organizations for
Philadelphia Police
Accountability and
Responsibility (COPPAR). For
the past year and a half, this
group has regularly attacked
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but it has yet to make a graft
charge.
'There's a certain amount
of police corruption in any
city, I'm sure," says Mary R.
Rouse, COPPAR co-chairman.
Indeed, when the group was
collecting evidence for its
brutality suit against the
police, several people came
forward with information
about police graft.
"WE COULDN'T GET
any lawyers to touch it for us
because it was too hot," says
Mrs. Rouse. "Anyway, we had
a hard enough time putting our
brutality cases together."
Elsewhere, the same pattern
exists. The only formidable
criticism of Los Angeles'
6,000-man force is that it is
too devoted to punishing
protestors and revolutionaries.
And Chicago's police
department- with a record that
has in the past deserved all the
scrutiny it can get-has been
under fire not for graft but for
the shooting of Black Panthers
Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.
By all indications, it takes a
well-publicized investigation,
such as the Knapp
Commission's, to arouse the
public about police
c o r r u p t i o n--a nd such
investigations are rare.
"THE WORST PART of it
all," says a Boston police
official, "is that they begin
looking the other way when a
crime is committed. The
attitude is, 'I've got to protect
my second income, that second
car, the better vacation, the kid
in college, that mortgage on the
house I couldn't afford on my
regular salary- so I'm not going
to stick out my neck.'
"Who knows how many
instances there have been of
policemen not being aggressive,
not stopping crimes and not
acting quickly because of the
corruption?"
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