A self-assessment tool to help you identify systemic corruption patterns in your community.
Systemic corruption rarely involves briefcases full of cash. It operates through legal structures, norms, and incentive systems that make harmful outcomes look natural, inevitable, or even desirable.
Your representatives consistently vote against the interests of their constituents — and get re-elected anyway.
Campaign donors receive government contracts worth many times their contribution.
Regulatory agencies are led by former executives of the industries they regulate.
Laws are written in language so complex that only industry lobbyists can interpret them.
Public comment periods exist but outcomes are predetermined.
Whistleblowers face more consequences than the people they expose.
District maps look like abstract art — drawn to protect incumbents, not communities.
The same families and networks cycle through government positions for decades.
Emergency powers declared years ago are still in effect with no oversight.
Supreme Court justices accept gifts worth more than most Americans earn in a year.
Members of Congress trade stocks based on information they receive in classified briefings.
You know something is wrong but you can't find the right words to explain it.
