The code of silence (source 8 and 15) Police culture can protect …show more content…
These behaviors ranged from sex-related, alcohol-related, and drug-related, to violence-related, and profit-motivated (Stinson, 2015). All officer misconduct on or off duty can be categorized under any of these categories, however they are not mutually exclusive to one category. An example of this is a drug-related crime being profit-motivated, or sex-related being violence-related. While all off duty misconduct may be generalized as overall misconduct to the general public, it is indistinguishable from on duty crime by other officers as there is no definitive line for the end of work. Despite there not being a national database for misconduct and corruption statistics, police departments have taken initiative to investigate the root causes with departmental wide