NCJ Number
176825
Date Published
Unknown
Length
0 pages
Annotation
This is a filmed discussion of police corruption, in particular the findings of the Mollen Commission, the most recent investigation into police corruption in New York.
Abstract
Participants in the discussion are Gerald W. Lynch, President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who is a psychologist and expert on police and police education, and Joseph P. Armao, Chief Counsel to the Mollen Commission and a key figure in the investigation. In 1992 several members of the New York Police Department (NYPD) were arrested for drug-related activities in Suffolk County. They were also involved in drug-related activities in the Brooklyn precincts where they worked, but it took the Suffolk County arrests to bring it all to light. The Mollen Commission was established to investigate the nature and extent of corruption in the NYPD, the quality of NYPD corruption detection policy and, if controls had broken down, what could be done to remedy the situation. Dr. Lynch discusses the idea of doing away with police academies and integrating police training with general higher education, requiring all police officers to have college educations, and possibly military training, and how to educate police officers so they consider ethics in their profession as important as loyalty to each other. The participants also examine the concept of a separate independent review board in addition to Internal Affairs Divisions to "police the police."