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Police Corruption, Municipal Corruption: Cures at What Cost?

NCJ Number
154865
Editor(s)
R Sandler
Date Published
1995
Length
589 pages
Annotation
This is a compilation of articles and documents prepared for a March 30, 1995, symposium on police and municipal corruption held in New York City.
Abstract
Symposium participants discussed: (1) lessons learned from investigations of past police scandals; (2) what to expect from New York City's new police anti-corruption measures; and (3) costs of curing municipal corruption. Documents presented in support of an overview of symposium topics were: (1) Visions of Corruption Control and the Evolution of American Public Administration; and (2) An Overview of The Mollen Commission. A Documentary History of Investigations into Police Corruption, 1895-1994, included all or parts of: (1) Report and proceedings of the Senate Committee Appointed to investigate the Police Department of the City of New York, January 18, 1895; (2) Report to the Special Committee of the Board of Aldermen of the City of New York to investigate the Police Department, June 10, 1913; (3) Final report on the investigation of the Magistrate's Courts in the First Judicial Department and the Magistrates thereof, and of Attorneys-at-law Practicing in said courts, March 28, 1932; (4) Testimony of the District Attorney and Assistant District Attorney, Kings County, NY, before the Kefauver Committee; (5) Report of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the City's Anti-corruption Procedures, December 26, 1972; (6) Report of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the Anti-Corruption Procedures of the Police Department, July 7, 1994; (7) Report of the Committee on Public Safety and Government Operations relating to the establishment of an Independent Police Investigation and Audit Board; (8) Local Law 13 of 1995 establishing said board; and (9) Mayor Giuliani's Executive Order establishing a Commission to Combat Police Corruption, and accompanying press release. Panelists addressing the costs of cures for municipal corruption discussed, inter alia: (1) Impacts on City Workers; (2) Costs and Benefits; and (3) Ethics Rules in the Department of Corrections--Who Watches the Protectors?