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Introduction: “The war on crime that is fought on the streets is far too often waged against innocent individuals unaware of, or intimidated into surrendering their constitutional rights”(ClarisLaw Inc., 2003). Police officers in return often make bad judgment calls on a possible offender and resort to using more force than needed. With the two of these misunderstandings of communication and panic, it is no wonder why police misconduct is becoming more and more of an issue. It was stated that “for as long as there has been police, there have been corruption” (Dempsey, 1999; p.293). It is often thought in an understanding response to police corruption that the officers often get mixed up in the misconduct because the police are around it every day, and it is hard not to decentralize yourself from that after being exposed to crime and corruption for so long. Eventually the brutality and dishonesty becomes apart of the police persona. History: In the 1970’s the Knapp Commission was created by New York City’s mayor, John V. Lindsay as an approach to stop the alleged police corruption that was going on. As well as recently many police departments have developed Internal Affairs divisions to basically enab