CRM/LAW C115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frank Serpico, Dashcam, Watergate Scandal
15 May 2018
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April 3, Week 1
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 5:09 PM
Police could only use deadly force when necessary in Sacramento
• Police had body cams and dash cams walk within the system of criminal
conviction
• Power of local prefecture to make own policies (in Japan) David Bailey
• America believes in local control of the police
Ex. CA making recreational use of weed
• CA is a sanctuary state,
• Frank Serpico, NYPD “godfather of whistleblowers”
Take money to protect gamblers or other things like parking
• Corruption takes place in trying to change the system you’re in
• Police should be locally controlled
• Corruption comes from big cities
• Rotten apples: police, when someone’s goes crooked, were crooked when
they were
younger, individual
• Into the 80s corruption began to be about drugs
• Rotten pockets: squads or sections or units, bc of job description that might
have more
access (power) to overlook some stuff in exchange for some time of bribe
Drug squads in 80s
• Rotten barrels: Entire department from top to bottom taking gambling
money everyone
takes a piece of it
• Vice policing: has to do with prostitution and like other related crimes
• It’s not easy to define corruption, difficult to observe it in its many forms,
and of
questionable importance to eradicate it
• Richard Nixon
Watergate Scandal 1972-74
• Robert Mueller- current prosecutor
Investigating Trump with Russia case
Cesare Chavez Birthday 2018
• 1969 Cesare Chavez
• Formed a union for farm workers
• Boycotted grapes
• Farmworkers and police
