This section is about the community. There are at least two factors that are relevant here concerning the effects of lack of integrity on community policing. One relates to the role of the community itself in instances of police malpractice. The other relates to what the community perception is of behavior that lacks integrity. The role of the public is relatively straightforward.
Society plays a major part in corrupting police officers.
Ben Whittier most succinctly expresses this concept. We employ him to administer the law, and yet ask him to waive it. We resent him when he enforces a law in our own case, yet demand his dismissal when he does not elsewhere. We offer him bribes, yet denounce his corruption. We expect him to be a member of society, yet not to share its values.