What percentage of Law enforcement officers and agents do you think are corrupt ?

I am not trying to insult any law enforcement officers just merely want to make a consensus

please give an honest opinion I'm a third year Law student

I am open minded and would like opinions and sources please

I think they justify using brute force and tasers on little old women and pregnant women and old men, and pepper spray on kids way too much. Or on anyone for that matter - like the person in the airport who didn't speak English that they killed by tasing him. That might not be corrupt - but it certainly isn't right. I also think there are way more than 2-3% of them corrupt - maybe more like 20-30%. Not to put down the 70-80% of them that are good. (and I wish people on here would stop saying "what's your point" it sounds tooooooo rude).

nah, its 2.344% (down from 2.345 last year)

I don't know. What % of LAWYERS are corrupt?

Plumbers?

Doctors?

Nuurses?

Congressmen?

Senators?

teachers?

Waiters?

Bus boys?

whats your point? You are aware the cops are humans and as such, make mistakes and are subject to the same human weaknesses as ANY profession, correct?

Cops don't come from some super special lab where they get a chip that makes them infalible. They are people and do dumb things.

I can't state percentage, however the kind that has no morals and value towards human rights. They don't just dishonor the badge but they dishonor the laws they swear to up hold.

Less than Three percent.

I was going to say about 3% before I saw the other answers, so now I'm convinced, about 3%....

But I have to agree with nytrainoff... There's corruption in every walk of life.Would we like to think and hope that people entrusted with public service would be more "careful' of there indiscretions, of coarse,but that is wishful thinking...and I would be so frank as to say goes against human nature...

The same amount as the community from which the officers come from. We are all human and come from the same communities, why would you think that someone who becomes a law enforcement officer is any more or less honest than his counterparts?

You have some good answers from that mad guy that wont let anyone add him and sensei and I think one more, Lets face it Hiroko, you are serious, so I'll just say I hope a little less than the rest of us.

I would say 5.5%.

By the way, did you know that 72.6% of all statistics are made up right there on the spot.

It depends upon what you mean by "corrupt".

If "corrupt" means are they organized criminals and murderers, it is less than 10%.

If "corrupt" means they arrest innocent people and then falsify reports, then it is nearly 100%

Depends on what you mean by corrupt, getting a pot head to toss a joint away rather than arresting him could be considered corrupt. You're probably looking for the more dangerous problematic corrupt kind of cops that steal drugs, plant evidence, ect.

I'd have to say a little over 1% maybe 2% of all the police in all the United States are truly corrupt. To some its shocking however divide that percentage by how many states there are and then divide that new percentage by how many cities there are in the state. It's really not that many. Plus it shifts by cycling new corrupts cops in and corrupt cops out on a regular basis.

i would have to say inbetween 50-75 percent

50%

Depends on where you are talking about;

Major state agencies such as California Bureau of Investigation, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division, or Texas Rangers, then less than 1%.

Professional Police Departments such as San Diego PD, Austin PD, or Orlando PD, then 1% to 2%.

Then there’s New Orleans PD, 33% to 69% something like that!

from papers and all stories you read about it and knowing there's some that never get caught, I'd say in the 12-17% range

In Texas: 60% Corrupt, 40% honest by the book

IMO!

well over 75% are corrupt.

I live in Chicago,& the ENTIRE police force is under investigation for abuses.

Sad when you can't feel safe even from the people payed to protect you.

I dont know it because it is so wide in the question

I would say no less than 25 % That crap of 3 % is just crap cops have a code of silence and they will not let the truth be told

2.345%

Given the fact that new stories of corruption and brutality surface each week somewhere in the country, I think of an analogy with cockroaches. When you see two or three, you have hundreds that you can't see, and they hide behind the walls

These are just from this week, in my state:

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?s=7791171

http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?s=7766245

Internal Affairs and the "blue code of silence" make the number difficult or impossible to quantify, because they do not reveal statistics on citizen complaints. The "only 1-2% " cops here quote is only the number of situations that come to the public light. I have to say close to 80% of cops are corrupt