Category: CRJ302 Community & CJ

The Truth about George Floyd- The Glenn Show

The Glenn Show is an excellent podcast that at times tackles the issues of race, crime, and policing.

In this episode the authors discuss the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis” (see earlier posts for a link). The authors are academics and not police. They have interesting discussions and opinions on the film and the George Floyd incident.

Bloggingheads.tv
— See it on bloggingheads.tv/videos/67137

Reversal of qualified immunity decision in LAPD fatal shooting

A deep dive into the 2018 case where LAPD Officer Edward Agdeppa fatally shot Albert Dorsey. Explore the subsequent federal lawsuit by Dorsey’s mother against Agdeppa for alleged unreasonable deadly force, and its implications on Fourth Amendment rights.
— Read on www.police1.com/legal/articles/ninth-circuit-reverses-course-and-issues-new-ruling-giving-lapd-officer-qualified-immunity-sntvJPP8OSuv0p1S/

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Discussion with Rafael Mangual

Excellent!

This podcast covered Policing, Racism, Progressive Prosecutor, & Cash Bail. Rafael Mangual is an expert on these topics. Also see Mangual’s book – there is a link to it at the like below.

Chicago Way w/John Kass: Kindness is for holiday parties, not revolving-door criminal courts – John Kass
— checkout the podcast at johnkassnews.com/chicago-way-w-john-kass-kindness-is-for-holiday-parties-not-revolving-door-criminal-courts/

Police Recruitment and Selection: Resources and Lessons for Workforce Building

Police officer recruitment and selection are challenging, yet vitally important contributors to police accountability and establishing a trusted relationship with the community. To help police leaders make informed decisions, researchers at Michigan State University reviewed existing literature and compiled this guide to current resources on law enforcement staffing. The guide presents summaries of publications describing innovative strategies and rigorously tested recruitment and selection tactics in a format that is concise and accessible. All information is cross tabulated on an easy-to-read table that allows readers to easily identify resources (and the specific page numbers within the resource) that address fourteen relevant themes such as mentorship, outreach to schools, and focus on various underrepresented groups. This work supports a comprehensive commitment by the U.S. Department of Justice to provide resources for the field to help police leaders meet the challenges of recruitment and staffing, as indicated by the 2023 publication of Recruitment and Retention for the Modern Law Enforcement Agency
— Read on portal.cops.usdoj.gov/resourcecenter/Home.aspx

Surging farebeating is a sign of bad things to come: Reverse the soft-on-crime trend now

Another example of how farebeating enforcement is important for controlling crime and disorder. The other important piece of the puzzle is prosecuting farebeating arrests.

New MTA reporting shows that farebeating on buses and subways is still rising.
— Read on nypost.com/2023/11/25/opinion/surging-farebeating-is-a-sign-of-bad-things-to-come-reverse-the-soft-on-crime-trend-now/

Chicago Police Department 911 Response Time Data Collection and Reporting – Chicago Office of Inspector General

Executive Summary
The objectives of the inquiry were to determine the completeness rates of CPD response times recorded by CPD and the Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC), and to identify factors contributing to missing response time data for 911 calls for CPD service.

As a result of this inquiry, OIG found that CPD’s data collection of 911 response times is incomplete; the Department fails to record timestamps for various statuses throughout the dispatch and police response for a substantial number of 911 calls. Calls for high priority emergency events had a higher rate of recorded response times for all statuses that occur during a unit’s response (Acknowledge, Enroute, and On-scene) compared to calls for events with a lower priority classification. The timepoint in the police response process that is least often recorded is the On-scene time, or the time when the responding CPD unit arrives at the location of service; this remains true regardless of call priority level or geographic location. The On-scene status is the last time point in the sequence of events before responding members engage with an emergency event, which may contribute to the low On-scene time completeness rates. Additionally, the interface of the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, which records a timestamp when CPD members enter their response status, displays the response status buttons sequentially, and is dependent on the previous status in the process being entered.
— Read on igchicago.org/publications/chicago-police-department-911-response-time-data-collection-and-reporting/

Get a copy of the report HERE