Potential Topics: Police Brutality and Race Police Violence and African Americans When Does the Use of Force Become Police Brutality? Police Brutality and the Black Lives Matter Movement Police Brutality and the Blue Lives Matter Movemen Continue Reading...
Police use of force There is no single globally accepted definition of use of force by police officers. The National Institute of Justice, which is a subsidiary of the Justice Department concurs with this. This leaves the approximately 18,000 police Continue Reading...
Manage Use of Force Ethical Issues HOW TO MANAGE USE-OF-FORCE ETHICAL ISSUES This objective of this study is to examine how criminal justice and private security managers and executives are addressing use-of-force issues from an ethical point-of-v Continue Reading...
police management affect the way police officers use force? The Force Continuum Style of Leadership and Management Proper Management of Police Resources Innovations in Excessive Force Training Protection of its citizens is the fundamental missi Continue Reading...
DiscussionThe hypothesis of this study was: Requiring a higher education/college degree for law enforcement officers will lead to less use of force and better community policing.Explanation of ResultsBased on the background research, the study found Continue Reading...
One police officer for example referred to the chaos as a "holocaust," far removed from the real world (Shankman et al., 2010). Alpert and Smith (2001, p. 483) note that a survey of the public showed a general perception that the police is frequent Continue Reading...
The young man had struck the officer repeatedly before continuing to resist arrest, and finally being killed. The court found in favor of the officer. Hopkins v. Andaya is a similar case in which an officer was struck repeatedly and ignore despite Continue Reading...
Police Use of Force and De-Escalation PoliciesAbstractThe use of excessive or unnecessary force and other forms of police misconduct have recently come under sharp focus because of the injuries and deaths they have caused. Police are allowed to use f Continue Reading...
Analysts worry that the imagery of "terrorist" and "immigrant" will be a potent source of increased uses of excessive force (Bai and Tang 2002). Finally, the fact that juries rarely convict police officers for use of excessive force indirectly cont Continue Reading...
Force by Police and Correctional Officers in the United States Today Beginning with the high-profile case of Rodney King in March 1991, the proliferation of cellular telephones equipped with cameras has resulted in an increasing number of video acc Continue Reading...
Police Brutality and Use of ForceAbstractThis paper provides an examination of the problem of police brutality and use of force and ways the issue can be addressed in a positive manner. Among those ways it discusses using body cams to enhance account Continue Reading...
Excessive Psychological and Physical Force on Victims and the Public: An Exploration of Police Practices The subject of excessive use of violence by authoritative figures has been widely examined throughout history. Alpert and Smith suggest that th Continue Reading...
Civil Liability The issue of the use of force and civil liability amongst police officers has been the subject of debate for many ears. The Rodney King trial and subsequent riots brought a great deal of attention to the excessive use of force and th Continue Reading...
Police Ethics Description Ethics is a delicate topic in the context of policing, as police officers are often coming across situations when they need to act on account of their instinct rather than on ethical thinking. Individuals are subjected to Continue Reading...
Police Intelligence: Rapidly Changing the Way Police Organizations Fight Crime Since the professional era of policing, the traditional role of the police officer in the United States has primarily been that of crime fighter. Law enforcement officers Continue Reading...
367 Although the incidence of deadly force use has likely remained steady in the first five categories, Russell and Beigel emphasize that based on the increased attention being directed at the "stake-out and drugs" category, these rates are likely Continue Reading...
Albert and Smith delve into the controversial and complex topic of the use of excessive force in policing. The authors note two important points about the complex topic. First, use of excessive police force is poorly researched and understood. The t Continue Reading...
During the 1960's and 1970's, violent contact with the police, resulting in force occurred during anti-war, labor and civil rights demonstrations, during a politically tumultuous time. It is safe to conclude that excessive force was used during the Continue Reading...
Though women constitute only 12.7% of the sworn police force they are implicated in only 5% of the total cases registered against the use of excessive force. Statistics further indicate that women officers account for only 6% of the total dollars pa Continue Reading...
One of the authors in the review, in fact details a reporting system that effectively makes the use of force scene an investigated crime scene, where forensic and other evidence, physical and testimonial, is collected to develop a clear understandin Continue Reading...
How the Black Lives Matter Movement Changed the Law Enforcement Landscape Abstract Today, the United States faces multiple existential threats from a global Covid-19 pandemic and the concomitant economic downturn as well as rising racial tensions fol Continue Reading...
S. In April 2005, where there is a description of how a cell search took place there as per his version. "The guards secured his hands behind his back and, while he was so restrained, the guards picked him up and slammed his body and his head into th Continue Reading...
Excessive Force Liability The International Association for the Chiefs of Police (IACP) has maintained an updated model policy on the use of force for over two decades (Hough & Tatum, 2012). A number of 'use of force' policies implemented by pol Continue Reading...
Deadly Force by Police Top Ten Ways to Reduce the Use of Deadly Force by Law Enforcement Officers While the media tends to portray law enforcement's use of lethal force as excessive and widespread, the empirical data shows a very different picture Continue Reading...
Even with that, considering the large numbers mentioned, one can be suppose that not every individual that is being fired at deserves to be shot. Of course, it is logical to believe that police officers receive proper instruction in order to know wh Continue Reading...
Third, the degree to which the suspect is confronted with apparent evidence of guilt; this means that it is impermissible to confront the suspect with the evidence to suggest that there is no point in refusing to confess. Fourth, whether the suspect Continue Reading...
Discovery: In what ways would discovery alter an investigator's methods of investigating? Discovery that can be submitted into the law must be commensurate with discovery laws regarding dispositions, spontaneous admissions, and investigative quest Continue Reading...
It was thus decided that the use of force by the police was justified by the circumstances and that accusations were more of an issue of violation of rights rather than violent demeanor against Graham. The motion filled by the accused for a directed Continue Reading...
Police Department Organization: The local, state, and federal agencies are part of the criminal justice system that focuses on dealing with the problem of crime. The main components of the criminal justice system at all levels of government include Continue Reading...
From all neighborhoods the answers were the same, that when police, residents and merchants worked together, crime was reduced. It was also recognized that there was room for improvement in Seattle's community policing efforts. First, it was stated Continue Reading...
Police Ethics Ethics, therefore, is not something that a policeman learns in the classroom -- yet, training classes are regularly scheduled -- and this picture of student not understanding why he is in the classroom is indicative of the problem of p Continue Reading...
Police Ethics: Identifying Opportunities for Improvement Many people have are afraid of the police, and some would even argue they are afraid for good reason. Indeed, sensationalized and high-profile accounts of police brutality, corruption, sex sca Continue Reading...
Policing Services and Programs: Even as policing services and programs are being restructured across the globe, understanding this change in customary terms is rather difficult. In these new policing services and programs, the difference between pub Continue Reading...
Police corruption is a major problem throughout the world. As people of a civilized society we depend on our police department to protect us and the stop crimes from happening. Police corruption happens in many parts of the world, and the main motiva Continue Reading...
(Frederickson, 2000, p. 3) Police forces became the fodder for systematic research on the need for and development of improved minority representation in public service as well as a frequently attached public entity with regard to minority status in Continue Reading...
Police Organization Operations The police department is one of the most significant departments in the supervision, maintenance and implementation of the societal order. It is the one that is entrusted with most of the communal maintenance of peace Continue Reading...
At this time there is no uniform consensus about what agencies have authority in the Middle East. The Dubai police are working with agencies including the Department of Homeland Security to establish a more democratic policing system. Despite their Continue Reading...
Police Brutality In recent years there has been an increase in the number of cases of police brutality reported. It is important to look at police brutality against Hispanics and African-Americans to gain a better understanding of this serious probl Continue Reading...
