Category: CRJ301 Police Mgt

Study Shows Throwing Money At Law Enforcement Doesn’t Result In Lower Crime Rates | Techdirt

Pretty much every law enforcement agency gets exactly what it wants during budget discussions. The spending on policing always seems to increase, despite years of diminishing returns. The money flows in, but very little flows back out in terms of community relations, accountability, or transparency. In recent years, there have been discussions about “defunding” law…
— Read on www.techdirt.com/2024/01/25/study-shows-throwing-money-at-law-enforcement-doesnt-result-in-lower-crime-rates/

Guidance for ethical and professional behaviour in policing | College of Policing

QUESTION: Are the police officers given the same benefit of these ethical principles? For example when a police officer makes an error when working are they fired or give an opportunity to be retrained a correct their conduct? When false accusations are made against police officers are complainants arrested and prosecuted?

Guidance to help put the ethical policing principles into day-to-day practice and outline the expectations of how policing professionals should behave.
— Read on www.college.police.uk/ethics/code-of-ethics/guidance

Memphis police numbers dropped by nearly a quarter in recent years – were staffing shortages a factor in the killing of Tyre Nichols?

Police departments have faced recruitment and retention problems since the 2020 George Floyd protests. It has meant some agencies have had to lower standards to attract new officers.
— Read on theconversation.com/memphis-police-numbers-dropped-by-nearly-a-quarter-in-recent-years-were-staffing-shortages-a-factor-in-the-killing-of-tyre-nichols-199078

Michigan State Police – 4 unique reports

Michigan State Police Traffic Enforcement: An Assessment of Policies, Training, and Operations

Exploring Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Michigan State Police Traffic Stops Using the Veil of Darkness Methodology (2021 Data)

Michigan State Police Traffic Stop External Benchmarking: A Final Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities (2020 Data)

Traffic Stop Data: 2017-2019

— Read on www.michigan.gov/msp/public-information/transparency/accordion/reports/traffic-stop-data-main

Hardening the System: Three Commonsense Measures to Help Keep Crime at Bay | Manhattan Institute

After a long period of continuous violent-crime declines throughout the U.S.—spanning from the mid-1990s through the early 2010s—many American cities are now seeing significant increases in violence. Nationally, in 2015 and 2016, murders rose nearly 11% and 8%, respectively.[1] The national homicide rate declined slightly in 2017 and 2018, before ticking upward in 2019.[2] In 2020, […]
— Read on manhattan.institute/article/hardening-the-system-three-commonsense-measures-to-help-keep-crime-at-bay

Adults With Mental Illness Are Overrepresented in Probation Population | The Pew Charitable Trusts

Adults on probation—supervision imposed by the court generally in lieu of incarceration—are more than twice as likely to have a serious or moderate mental illness as those in the general public, according to analysis of federal data from 2015 to 2019 by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
— Read on www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2024/01/adults-with-mental-illness-are-overrepresented-in-probation-population

See a .PDF version of the report HERE