From Good Cop to Bad Cop

A senior officer at a large police department is preparing to address a class of newly-graduated police officers. Over the past five months, the nation's media has been covering almost daily stories of alleged corruption concerning police officers in the precinct. The coverage intensified with the apparent suicide of one of the police officers, an officer previously decorated for service and bravery. In preparing his address to the graduates, the senior officer wondered what had gone so terribly wrong in the precinct and more importantly, what could have been done to prevent it.