The Police and Corruption The police. Twenty-four hours a day, three hundred sixty-five days a year, this division of our government has a mandate to enforce the criminal law and preserve public peace. Understood in this mandate is an obligation to police everyday life matters that originate in the daily lives and activities of citizens within their community. Police interact in some form with the average citizen more often than any other government official. In …showed first 75 words of 651 total…

…showed last 75 words of 651 total…and judges. They are treated as less of a professional. To see a person who in the officer's discretion was guilty be released time after time, it is difficult for the officer to keep his commitment to the system. “Where moral commitment is lost, subcultural practices take over. One such practice that exacerbates the relationship of the police with the public is harassment” (Reiss, p.138) Therefore police create their own subcultural practices which include harassment.