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by Jacquin Sanders
Newsweek Feature Service
It usually begins when a
rookie cop eats a hamburger at
a diner and the proprietor
waves off his money, saying
the buTger is on the house.
The next step might be
when a delivery truck parks
illegally in front of a bar, and
the owner slips the police
officer a bottle of Scotch to
overlook the brief violation.
Then money begins
changing hands. A construction
crew foreman hands over a $5
bill and the cop doesn't notice
the cement-roixer set up on the
sidewalk. A driver runs through
a traffic light, passes over a $ 1 0
bill along with his license and
the ticket doesn't get written.
A crap game in the back of a
garage gets to be a regular
occurrence and the cop on the
beat gets a small percentage of
the pot.
SO IT GOES. No figure in
American life is so constantly
exposed to temptation as the
police officer. The wonder,
perhaps, is not that there aTe
crooked cops, but that there
are so many straight ones.
A police officer doesn't
necessarily have to go out to
drum up graft,"" says New
YoTk City Police Commissioner
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Murphy's New York cops
are presently under heavy fire
from disclosures of the Knapp
Commission, a blue-ribbon
panel that has been
investigating and
finding-police corruption for
more than a year.
But the crooked cop is no
New York invention and the
chances are depressingly good
that there is similar corruption
in many of the nation's other
police departments,
CHICAGO HAS HAD two
major police scandals in the
past decade and many local
observers think the city is ripe
for a third. 1 would question
how any kid can get off a plane
in Chicago and in a matter of
hours purchase any kind of
drugs he wants on the streets,"
says William Reektenwald of
Chicago's Better Government
Association.
Illegal gambling with pinball
machines is flourishing in much
of Louisiana with a $3.5
million annual gross, according
to Attorney General John
Mitchell. Two New Orleans
police officers and District
Attorney Jim Garrison have
already been charged by the
Federal government with
protecting the pinball racket.
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declares that "Corruption is
just tremendous here. No
matter how honest the cop is,
he can't help getting pulled
into the system where
everyone gets money on the
side."
THE CORRUPTION IS
most prevalent for victimless
crimes. In downtown Boston,
where parking facilities are
woefully inadequate, some
businessmen pay some police
$45 per month to leave their
cars in no-parking zones. And
it is not unheard of for some
police officers to go through
entire buildings in the financial
district once a month,
collecting these "parking fees";
and the monthly take for some
buildings goes as high as
$ 3,000.
Apologists for the
cop-on-the-take say there's a
difference between ""dirty"
and ""clean" graft "Dirty"
usually involves narcotics; it
can also mean that a police
officer will actually work with
thieves or will perjure himself
in court testimony for a fee.
""Clean" graft as less easy to
classify on a moral scale. It
involves crime without an
immediate victim things like
gambling and prostitution
which many otherwise
law-abiding citizens simply do
not consider criminal
ONE OF THE contributions
of the Knapp Commission is
breaking down the mythical
barriers between clean and
dirty graft. One witness after
another has shown how the
two interlock, how the
uniformed cop who begins by
taking $2 a week to allow a
Puerto Rican grocer to display
his fruit and vegetables on the
street ends up in the same
moral box as the division
commander whom the mob
pays $1,500 a month to allow
gambling-and ho w closely akin
are both to the corrupt
plainclothes man on the
narcotics squad.
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man yet who was in
plainclothes for more than two
months that was not on the
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