Editing Police corruption (section)

==Types==
'''Soliciting''' or '''accepting [[bribes]]''' in exchange for not reporting organized drug or prostitution rings or other illegal activities and violations of law, county and city ordinances and state and federal laws. 
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Bribes may also include leasing unlawful access to proprietary law enforcement databases and systems.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/french-police-officer-caught-selling-confidential-police-data-on-the-dark-web/ |title=French police officer caught selling confidential police data on the dark web |first=Catalin |last=Cimpanu |website=[[ZDNet]] |date=October 3, 2018 |access-date=31 October 2021 |archive-date=31 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031100153/https://www.zdnet.com/article/french-police-officer-caught-selling-confidential-police-data-on-the-dark-web/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Flouting''' the police [[code of conduct]] in order to secure convictions of [[civilian]]s and [[suspect]]s—for example, through the use of [[falsified evidence]]. There are also situations where law enforcement officers may deliberately and systematically participate in [[organized crime]] themselves.

'''Selective enforcement'''

In most major cities there are [[Internal affairs (law enforcement)|internal affairs]] sections to investigate suspected police corruption or misconduct, including [[selective enforcement]], but there are situations where Internal Affairs also hides departmental and individual corruption, fraud, abuse and waste by individual officers, groups of officers or even unwritten departmental policies. There are also Police Commissions who are complicit in the same cover-ups, often to hide internal and departmental problems, both from public view, and also from inter-departmental reviews and investigations. Certain officers can be fired, then rehired by petition after they accrue enough signatures, often from the very criminals and violators from whom corrupt officers have garnered previous favors in exchange for officers "turning a blind eye", resulting in selective enforcement of violations being deterred, but actually promoted.

Similar entities include the British [[Independent Police Complaints Commission]]. Police corruption is a significant widespread problem in many departments and agencies worldwide.

It is not possible to measure the level of corruption in a country. Surveys of police officers, citizens and businesses can be used to provide estimates on levels of corruption. These are often inaccurate, as respondents involved in corruption are reluctant to provide any information implicating themselves in criminal activity.<ref name="main">{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1080/15614260290011336|title = Controlling Police Corruption: The Croatian Perspective|year = 2002|last1 = Ivković|first1 = Sanja Kutnjak|last2 = Klockars|first2 = Carl|last3 = Cajner-Mraović|first3 = Irena|last4 = Ivanušec|first4 = Dražen|journal = Police Practice and Research|volume = 3|pages = 55–72|s2cid = 144690458}}</ref> Despite this limitation, information collected from International Crime Victim Surveys and surveys conducted by the Global Corruption Enumerated Barometer can be used to estimate the level of police corruption.