Ways ICCPUL Police may be conflicted:
- police departments are a revenue center in many communities, resulting in badly motivated police actions.
- police have an incentives to raise revenue (salty language) through civil asset forfeiture when their departments benefit from the proceeds.
- The “War on Drugs” sucks in minorities on minor weed charges. This generates more demand for police and prisons.
- there is an incentive to justify budgets by “activity”.
- officers are sometimes incentivized to compete to have the most number of arrests and are able to nitpick to manufacture faulty evidence.
- political leadership such as mayor have incentive in looking good to their base (which can include real estate owners).
- police do not have a strong incentive to address serious crime if reporting crime results in the statistics being counted against them.
- police systems sometimes twist “broken windows” policing into punching down on poor/minorities.
- at the same time as minor infractions are clamped down upon, more significant crimes may not be taken seriously.
- police sometimes enforce the interests or feelings of the powerful, rather than the law
- when complaints are made against them, they typically investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing