Changes In The Perspective Of Police Members Toward Police Corrupt Behavior In The Process Of Socialization Of Organizational Culture

One of the police irregularities that has become a concern for the public, including researchers, is police corruption. Police corruption is considered one of the biggest obstacles to realizing the best performance of the police in protecting and serving the community. The police are one of the most essential institutions in Society and are trusted to enforce the law and maintain order. When the police engage in corruption, public trust is damaged, and they become ineffective in fighting crime (Roebuck and Barker, 1974; Kumssa, 2015; Syed and Bruce, 1998). Police corruption also undermines the credibility and effectiveness of law enforcement agencies and erodes public trust in police institutions (Williams, 2002). As mentioned above, a person’s behaviour is an artifact strongly influenced by their values. Values are ideas about what is right and fair. Value is a perspective that determines whether something is good or bad, right or wrong, beautiful or ugly, suitable or not, and so on. Although values are abstract and do not necessarily describe behaviour, they can explain what we do and why we do it. Values are also identified as good and valuable (Koesoema, 201S; Smith and Schwartz, 1997; Liliweri, 2014). From the perspective of organizational culture theory, corrupt behaviour is an artifact of the police organization. Artifacts are elements of organizational culture that are behavioural, appearing in the daily behaviour of its members and in other visible forms such as organizational design and architecture. Artifacts, as elements of organizational culture, are seen in daily activities and are greatly influenced by idealistic elements of organizational culture. This element contains strategies, goals, visions, missions, values, norms, views, beliefs, and organizational values to determine whether something is good or bad. This element is elusive and not visible to the surface (F. Lando Jocano in Sobirin, 2007; Yusuf, 2018). Are illegal levies by the police right or wrong? Is it good or bad to cover up corruption committed by fellow policemen? These two questions can show how values shape individual police officers’ responses to corrupt behaviour. From this perspective, someone might say that a police officer’s value system strongly influences their corruption. Therefore, one effort to identify the causes of police corruption is to understand what values police members hold and how they shape their views of corrupt behaviour. This study examines police officers’ perspectives on corruption within police organizations (police corruption). The primary focus of this study is to understand in depth the extent to which there have been changes in the police human value system during the career journey that shaped their perspective on corrupt behaviour and the factors that play a role in shaping the value system, both values - The value of the organization, group and individual police themselves.