Police corruption Police corruption can be described as a type of police misconduct whereby the law enforcement officers break their work and ethical contracts and abuse their power for personal gain (Caldero & Crank, 2014). The corruption may involve one or multiple officers. For years, police corruption has been a significant challenge to the credibility, efficiency, and activities of the law enforcement sector since it leads to a reduction in public trust, violation of human rights and legal violations (Caldero & Crank, 2014). Likewise, police corruption takes various forms, but the common one is bribery. Other types of corruption are a violation of the police code of conduct, selective enforcement of the law, stealing from suspects, victims or crimes of scenes, lying in a court of law or to investigators to protect other police officers or oneself, and internal payoffs which are about getting unwarranted favors such as a holiday in exchange for loyalty to an individual in a police department (Caldero & Crank, 2014). One country that has to experience police corruption is the United States. Corruption has mainly…