E.1: Law Enforcement Corruption

Reduce law enforcement corruption within the United States to increase our country’s public safety and national security.

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Recognizing that any corruption within our nation’s law enforcement agencies directly undermines public safety, the FBI aggressively investigates these crimes. The proliferation of drug trafficking enterprises in the past decade has led to increased corruption of public officials along the southwest border of the United States, who facilitate drug trans-shipments into the United States. Corrupt officials also facilitate illegal immigration, and this is expected to increase over the next five years. There is a serious concern that drug and alien smuggling organizations could be used by terrorists to facilitate their entry into the United States, and corrupt officials dramatically increase the success of smuggling operations. The FBI will need to increase its efforts in this arena to minimize the national security implications. Priority Actions: Expand the intelligence base to identify significant law enforcement corruption activity. Increase and strengthen membership in public corruption task forces to aggressively pursue significant law enforcement corruption. Increase training of Internal Affairs executives, investigators, and others regarding public corruption within state and local law enforcement and correctional entities to identify individual and systemic corruption, and increase coordination of operational activities when appropriate. Increase outreach to federal, state, and local stakeholders to identify public corruption trends and methodologies, increase reporting of potential violators, and educate to reduce corruption within the agencies. Conduct investigations that fully address significant law enforcement corruption. Expand the scope and breadth of human source reporting of law enforcement corruption. Deter significant corruption along the U.S. borders by aggressively pursuing regional anti-corruption strategies.

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