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In the midseventies, the Amsterdam police faced a major case of corruption for the first time The media reacted with relish and treated the case as a major journalistic scandal with prolonged coverage. Top members of the police were confused by the internal upheavals and acute external interest, and their inability to deal with a complex, changing environment lead to an escalation of internal unrest. This scandal reveals latent features of police work and the police organization, of the media's construction of scandal, and of attitudes toward deviation in Dutch society
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