After a two-year investigation, a special commission has concluded that corruption in the New York City Police Department is bigger than a few cops on the beat taking bribes-- that it has also infected the entire department, from " willfully blind " sergeants and precinct commanders who condone corruption to internal investigators who bury complaints in " tickler files ."
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But the final report draws a detailed picture of well-organized groups of rogue officers racing to crime scenes to skim money from captured stashes of cash, union delegates tipping off corrupt officers to investigations, young cadets learning in the Police Academy that they are not to " rat " on their brother officers, and internal police investigators burying corruption evidence into " tickler files ."
