Both are crimes, and it's made pretty clear by the compliance training I have to retake every year at my corp job. If a corporation has to train employees to not give bribes because we can go to jail, and the corp will be on the hook as well, then they will likely also be prosecuted.

Both sides are wrong on this, giving or accepting.

No, giving a bribe is not "working with law enforcement." These are two different things.

Giving bribes is "definitionally" a crime.

But more than that - giving bribes is fucking over people who cannot afford to give bribes so they are treated unfairly.

So not only it's a crime - it's also morally evil.

Obviously you have to prosecute the ones giving bribes as well. What a ludicrously entitled position

> Prosecute the one accepting the bribes, not the one giving it.

... Wait, what? You prosecute _both_.

> Working with law enforcement is... uh, not a crime, definitionally.

The "just following orders" defence is, fairly, notoriously, weak. "Just following requests" is presumably even weaker. If you assist law enforcement in doing something illegal, you shouldn't assume that you're magically in the clear.