This study addresses the perception of the use of force and some differences that exist between males and females within law enforcement. A survey was distributed to five average sized police departments across the United States to survey the perceptions of the men and women in blue. The hypothes...
The use of expert witnesses has somewhat less importance in those jurisdictions. Keywords: police use of force; police defensive tactics; police deadly force; police nondeadly force; police weapons; police search and seizures; Fourth Amendment; Graham v. Connor; Tennessee v. Garner; West v. ...
Study of Use of Force by Police Draws a BlankRead the full-text online article and more details about "Study of Use of Force by Police Draws a Blank" by Greenwood, Jill King - Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, November 14, 2008By GreenwoodJill King...
National data on citizen complaints about police use of force were collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in 2003 and 2007. These data are a critical component of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) overall response to 42 USC 14142, which requires the Attorney General to "acquire...
The purpose of the study was to investigate whether there was a relationship between police officer characteristics (e.g., experience, race, gender, age) and internal affairs investigations for allegations of use of force. Cumulative logistic regression models were fitted to data extracted from perso...
Police Women and the Use-of-Force 来自 ncjrs.gov 喜欢 0 阅读量: 18 作者: K Lonsway 摘要: In a roundtable conducted at the National Center for Women & Policing, a number of academics and practitioners discussed whether female officers were less likely than their male colleagues to use ...
“Because burglary is a serious and dangerous felony, the public interest in the prevention and detection of the crime is of compelling importance,” O’Connor said. The use of deadly force as a last resort to stop a suspect in a nighttime burglary is not unreasonable under the Constitution,...
Explanations of police coercion have been traditionally embedded within sociological, psychological, and organizational theoretical frameworks. Largely absent from the research are examinations exploring the role of neighborhood context on police use-of-force practices. Using data collected as part of a syst...
CHICAGO, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has concluded that there is reasonable cause to believe that the Chicago Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. ...
Garner requires that there be probable cause to believe a suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical ... JC Hall - 《Bureau of Justice Statistics》 被引量: 2发表: 1988年 Police Use of Force If the police decide to use deadly force against law-violators, then the ...