Corruption within police departments falls into 2 basic categories, which are external corruption and internal corruption. In this report I will concentrate only on external corruption because it has been the larger center of attention recently. I have decided to include the fairly recent accounts of corruption from a few major cities, mainly New York. I compiled my information from numerous articles written in the New York Times over the last 15 years. My definitional information and background data came from various books cited that have been written on the issue of police corruption. …