2007-07-23 09:57:25 · 5 answers · asked by Silly BaBy505 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Internal affairs.
2007-07-23 21:38:54 · answer #1 · answered by Vindicaire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "internal affairs" bureau of a police department handles complaints of police corruption in its own department. There is generally also a division of the local district attorney's office that handles and investigates reports of official corruption of all kinds. This special division of the DA's office will have detectives attached to it which are completely separate from the local police department and who answer to and are paid by the DA's office.
Where the corruption could involve the entire local criminal justice system, then the state attorney general gets involved. The state attorney general handles (1) broad-based local corruption, and (2) specific cases which may be too complex for the local district attorney's office to efficiently handle (for example, voter fraud).
If the governor of the state, for some reason, feels that no agency in his/her state can be trusted in a specific case, then they can call upon to federal authorities such as the Justice Department or the F.B.I. to come into the state and check things out. In many cases local mayors (such as in Los Angeles) will, with the governor's OK, call in the FBI to investigate specific cases of corruption.
Of course, most cases of corruption are not systemic, and only involve 1 or 2 bad public employees. In that case, the internal affairs bureau of their own department handles it.
2007-07-23 10:52:12 · answer #2 · answered by Jason W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
At the local/state level, it would be the state attorney general and any internal affairs departments in the police.
At the federal level, it's the Department of Justice.
2007-07-23 10:01:12 · answer #3 · answered by coragryph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As coragryph said that is one of the duties of the attorney general state and fed.
Of course you have particular committee and so forth, such as police have Internal Affairs, ... there are many such groups that in part at least, have oversight of governmental activities as part of their duties.
2007-07-23 10:05:35 · answer #4 · answered by sociald 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but there were asleep during the Clinton administration.
2007-07-23 10:11:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋