News media in New Jersey obtained over 72,000 documents from the state’s 469 police departments for the years 2012-2016 to compile what it calls a “comprehensive statewide database of police use of force.” According to the authors, “No one has ever seen data like this in New Jersey. Not the attorney general, not county prosecutors…
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2018/12/01/use-of-force-in-new-jersey/
Category: Misconduct
Officer’s Facebook comments – Free Speech?
Current And Former Chicago Police Officers Are Spewing Racist Hate On A Facebook Page
Posts on the page, which features scores of current and former Chicago police officers, have gone far beyond boosterism. Some posts encourage police to abuse suspects.
See the BuzzFeed.News article HERE
News Article on the Hartford Civilian Police Review Board
For 12 years, dozens of people who filed complaints with a watchdog panel to report mistreatment by city police never had their cases investigated or even opened by the group, Hartford’s Civilian Police Review Board.
City lawyers, concerned that complaints of police misconduct substantiated by a third party could be used against Hartford in lawsuits, withheld from the board all cases in which the complainant was suing or considering suing the city from 2005 to 2017.
Read the news story here.
Good Cop, Bad Cop?: Institute for Policy Research – Northwestern University
Good Cop, Bad Cop?: Institute for Policy Research – Northwestern University
— Read on www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2018/schanzenbach-good-cop-bad-cop.html
At the bottom of the article there is a link to a working paper.
How will the information in this article affect a police department’s response to officer misconduct?
Social networks of bad cops
Social networks of bad cops
https://gcordner.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/social-networks-of-bad-cops/
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/social-networks-of-bad-cops/
A Unique way of Looking at the Costs of Police Misconduct
A fresh way to calculate the costs of police misconduct. The total costs of police misconduct go beyond the settlement or court awards to the bonding costs and interest paid for police misconduct.
Follow the link below to get the report:
Future of Policing 