There are four main theories for the explanation of police corruption; the rotten apple theory, the deviant subculture theory, the opportunity theory and the social structure theory.
             The rotten apple theory states that rotten apples are weak individuals who have slipped through the screening process or deviant individuals who continue their deviance in an environment that gives them more opportunity. The basis of the rotten apple theory is a few morally week individual's presence corrupts everyone else.
             The rotten apple theory is most popular with police officers and administrators because it blames the whole affair on one highly unethical person, hence a bad apple. The rotten apple theory minimizes the public's negative response to police corruption after every act of corruption, because it is just one bad apple that might have rotted a few in the barrel.
             The deviant subculture theory suggests that the police officers subculture is a deviant one and causes corruption. A police officer deals with violence and potential violence every day. Police work is not your average nine o'clock to five o'clock job; police work is shift work, which means they do not always have time for their family and friends. Police officers create a police subculture, where they can relate to each other, being police officers. The basis of the deviant subculture is that the police subculture itself causes corruption.
             The opportunity theory is based on the idea that police work in general, causes corruption. Police work is unsupervised. A police officer can seize alcohol or drugs from juveniles and not arrest them and not write a report but keep the seized items for himself/herself. Not only are police seizing alcohol and drugs, police also seize money from drugs.
             The opportunity theory best explains police corruption because officers are unsupervised with drugs, alcohol, and money each day of their job. They also
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