This study examines police officers’ perceptions of two types of misconduct behaviors related to small business communities – the community-based misconduct and the self-interests-based misconduct. This study proposes that police officers’ occupational characteristics – the job duty and the rank as a supervisor, can impact their perceptions of the seriousness of the two types of police misconduct. Using data from the Police Corruption in Thirty Agencies in the United States – 1997, this study shows the strong consensus that the majority of police officers perceive the community-based misconduct as less serious, but perceive self-interests-based misconduct as more serious. This study has implications for the relationship between police and small business communities in creating and maintaining community collective goods. The community-based misconduct differs from the self-interests-based misconduct because the former can establish and enhance social connectedness and solidarity between the organization and the community. This study also shines lights on the conversation of organizational misconduct. Organizational misconduct behaviors differ not only by their seriousness but also by their nature, such that some misconduct behaviors contribute to the community’s public goods while some misconduct behaviors are more the pursuits of self-interest.