BLUE CODE OF SILENCE tells the true story about a crooked police officer in 1970s New York who brought down the most corrupt police unit in American history. [4] Louise Westmarland . This one has done particularly well, scoring, Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. Your reading intentions are private to you and will not be shown to other users. This paper examines the 'Blue Code of Silence' and its contribution to police corruption. Setting a reading intention helps you organise your reading. Setting a reading intention helps you organise your reading. Add to My Bookmarks Export citation. Finally, the paper discusses various measures to address the code of silence. “Police corruption not only undermines public trust in law enforcement,” Simpson said, but costs taxpayers millions of dollars in corruption-related prosecutions, lawsuits, defense and settlements. You can filter on reading intentions from the list, as well as view them within your profile. twitter.com/bflooduic, © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, UIC Social Media Guidelines and Best Practices. Register to receive personalised research and resources by email, NYU School of Law , 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY, 10012, USA, /doi/pdf/10.1080/15614260290011309?needAccess=true, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing & Allied Health. Brian Flood [3] Ann Mullen. The term “Blue Wall of Silence” also known as the, ‘Blue Code” or “Blue Shield,” was first triggered in New York. It is an unwritten code which is generally defined as: “A rule among police officers not to report on another officer’s errors, misconducts, and or crimes when questioned about an incident of misconduct involving another colleague, during a course of an inquiry.” Blowing the Whistle on Police Violence. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's, So far Altmetric has tracked 485 research outputs from this source. • historical data and information on Chicago Police Department corruption and oversight, • categorization of police conviction statistics. Setting up reading intentions help you organise your course reading. More than 90 of the convictions have taken place since 2000. Police corruption in Chicago survives due to a lack of oversight and indifference from internal and external leadership, according to a new report published by UIC researchers. According to the report, police corruption is enabled by a “blue code of silence” entrenched in a department culture where officers avoid reporting crimes and misconduct by their colleagues. After offering evidence for the existence of such a code, the paper locates the origins of the code in the work and culture of policing.