an police officer is an loss of ten or more vacation days or pay, suspension up to 30 days, probation, dismissal from the force up to 10 days or dealt with internally without a trial (Amnesty 37). With police brutality comes corruption.“The Mollen Commission found serious corruption included officers protecting and assisting narcotics traffickers, conducting unlawful searches and seizures, committing perjury and falsifying records; and engaging directly in drug trafficking and robberies” (Amnesty 4)All this was found when in 1991, six New York City officers were arrested on drug charges and questions were raised on how they did all this without being noticed. The department had certain blindness to what was going on. Internal Affairs Divisions had minimized their control efforts of police brutality and corruption instead of exposing it. Anybody found trying to report or investigate police misconduct had suffered from hostility, lack of cooperation, and in some cases reprisals (Amnesty 4).It seems like the only ones doing anything are programs and groups like Refuse and Resist, an organzation who speak out against brutality, NAACP who fight for the civil rights of people of color, The National Coalition on Police Accountability another group who bring forth corrupt cops, or people from the Stolen Lives project, who focus on lives taken by police officers after an incident of a young boy by the name of Anthony Baez was killed by police. It doesn’t seem like you have a chance against the court systems and less a chance with police officers.There are other recorded cases of police brutality before Rodney King, but they weren’t caught on videotape. On March 3, 1991 a police chased occurred in Los Angles California lasting 8 miles. After being gun downed, he was found drunk and high off PCP, 4 officers were ordered to jump on King. King however, threw them off his back. 500,000 volts of electric darts were th...
