Recent Developments in Police Use of Force

There have been several changes to what guides police use of force.

California passed legislation that tightens the restraints for when police use of force is allowed.

The COP of Camden NJ presented a new policy of Police Use of Force which he hopes to become a National Standard.

The Force Report a website that has compiled use of police force throughout New Jersey.

A 1979 article found at NCJRS about Community Concern and Police use of Deadly Force.

USAToday

California Police use of force

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/08/20/california-new-police-use-force-law-significant-change/2068263001/

California Police Use of Force Law

AB-392 Peace officers: deadly force. Passed and signed 8-19-2019

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB392

 

SB-230 Law enforcement: use of deadly force: training: policies

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB230

Camden Police

Camden police launch strict ‘last resort’ use-of-force policy. Chief wants it to be national model.

See video in news report

https://www.nj.com/camden/2019/08/camden-police-launch-strict-last-resort-use-of-force-policy-chief-wants-it-to-be-national-model.html

 

This has video (same as above?)

https://6abc.com/camden-co-police-department-revises-the-use-of-force-policy/5484117/

Camden County Police Department Use of Force Policy

https://futureofpolicing.blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/48819-ccpduofpolicy288.21.192928final29.pdf

 

The Force Report

Five years. 72,677 documents. Every local police department in N.J. We built the most comprehensive statewide database of police use of force in the U.S.

http://force.nj.com/

A COMMUNITY CONCERN: POLICE USE OF DEADLY FORCE

A look at concerns on police use of force in 1979

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/132789NCJRS.pdf

 

3 Arrested in New York City Water Bucket Attacks – Patrol – POLICE Magazine

Attempting to drown police officers with water has become some of the most recent viral videos. This is dangerous for the police and the public. Note this is not the same as squirting your favorite uncle at the family reunion.

This is dangerous because the H2O attackers have interfered with arrests, sprayed an unknown liquid on officers, hit officers with squirt guns and plastic buckets, grabbed onto officers, and damaged property.

Hopefully with police making an arrest this won’t become a growing trend.

Police in New York City have arrested three men in connection with the water bucket attacks in which police officers were doused with water in videos that were posted to social media on Monday.
— Read on www.policemag.com/519156/3-arrested-in-new-york-city-water-bucket-attacks

Union reaction to the initial attack

https://www.nycpba.org/press-releases/2019/statement-on-water-bucket-attacks/

Guidance Memo NYPD

https://twitter.com/nyscanner/status/1153701198903611392?s=21

HERE is an alternative view.

New legislation to protect police

Kerner Report Resources

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/8073NCJRS.pdf

 

Summary report http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/kerner.pdf

 

The Haas Institute has a conference about the 50th anniversary of The Kerner Report. There is a publication (listed below) and videos from the conference at there website. They lean far left.

The Haas Institute

https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/

 

Several Links here. Links to the conference videos.

https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/road-not-taken

 

PUBLICATION:

The Road Not Taken: Housing and Criminal Justice 50 Years After the Kerner Commission Report

https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/haas_institute_road_not_taken_kerner_publish_may_2019.pdf

 

The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/rsf.4.issue-6?refreqid=excelsior%3Abeb9e7f8723ec6ba3edae780c80156b1

 

What together we can do A forty year update of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/events/materials/kernerexecutivesummary.pdf

 

The Kerner Commission Report Fifty Years Later: Revisiting the American Dream

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.7758/rsf.2018.4.6.01.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Ae07ac8568f2d102be65079041f573971

 

The Kerner Commission — 40 Years Later

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/03282008/profile.html

A New Report Card for California’s Police Fails Most Departments – Route Fifty

The scorecard reviewed data from California’s hundred largest cities to find statewide trends on where police departments are struggling.
— Read on www.routefifty.com/public-safety/2019/06/new-report-card-californias-police-fails-most-departments/157530/

The police scorecard can be accessed HERE