Corruption within the Criminal Justice System occurs at every stage of the chain. It occurs in the police system, court system and also the correctional system, they may be put into a position where they are offered large payoffs to ignore illegal conducts.
Take for example this case that I have found in The Gleaner dated Saturday February 7, 2015, where seven Montego Bay policemen who allegedly accepted money, J$300,000.00, from a St James businessman in exchange for not prosecuting him for a quantity of ganja that was found at his premises during a police operation in November 2013.
Constables Alman Fletcher, Delroy Brown, Marvin Campbell, Devon Bernard, Dwayne Lynch, Paul Williams, and Taj Allen, who were all attached to the St James Police Division, were before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court, where they were charged with extortion, corruptly soliciting money, corruptly accepting money, and aiding and abetting.
Here we can seen corruption being displayed in a sector of the Criminal Justice System, in particularly the police department and also where they have challenged it by charging the officers associated with the crime. However this is just a minor aspect of corruption being challenged within the Criminal Justice System, because if one should try to fight corruption, as my roommate would say, "it would be like searching for a mustard seed within a container filled with sand".
The reality is that corruption do exist, and in the case of these three men, I am glad that they were apprehended and were brought before the courts to face the penalties for their decision. The analogy you used with regards to the mustard seed and the container of sand is rather interesting, but if we are to really fight and eradicate corruption, then that jar of sand will have to be sought through grain by grain, in order to find the mustard seed. While this might be tedious, it will be wort it in the end to have a police system whose actions won't be questioned.
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