Assertion: bribe | /r/CapableOf | keep the public
Facets:
value: from achieving justice
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: While bribery may be one of the lesser offences comprising police corruption, the bribe may be keeping the public from achieving justice and bribery is in no way a new concept: It has been suggested most notably by the Knapp Commission that the New York Police Department (NYPD) in particular suffered from corruption from the outset: systematic payoffs from brothels and gambling dens and shakedowns of small businesses were documented from the end of the nineteenth century through to the 1950’s (Newburn, 1999).