All about Policing with a sprinkle of Criminal Justice – written by a Secret Contrarian
To date CPD has 2 data dashboards available. They are Police use of Force and Gun Offender dashboards. These are a interesting and interactive way to present police data. On the website it notes that an additional dashboard Accountability is coming soon.
Data Dashboards | Chicago Police Department
— Read on home.chicagopolice.org/statistics-data/data-dashboards/
The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the oversight of policing practices. This is an very interesting and telling hearing. This was a far left agenda on policing. Listen to all the legislative bills that the legislature is planning to introduce on policing. It’s crazy. Why is new FEDERAL legislation needed for local policing? I think the federal government is overreaching. It will be a nightmare for policing if the legislative bills proposed pass. I don’t see a need for the federal government to interfere with local policing.
— Read on www.c-span.org/video/
According to new research, reassigning police officers with a history of misconduct makes it more likely that their new peers will also misbehave.
— Read on www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/police-misconduct-peer-effects/
Court records and interviews with former prosecutors show that internal assessments of police dishonesty are rarely memorialized, potentially violating the rights of people charged in criminal cases and sometimes keeping the records of bad cops clean.
— Read on theappeal.org/prosecutors-police-lies/
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.
California Police use of force
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 launch strict ‘last resort’ use-of-force policy. Chief wants it to be national model.
See video in news report
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
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.
A look at concerns on police use of force in 1979
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/132789NCJRS.pdf
This is a nice article that outlines Abt’s book “Bleeding Out”. It has links to other useful and interesting publications.
Urban gun violence is a big problem. Thomas Abt’s new book, Bleeding Out, offers a solution.
— Read on www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/12/20679091/thomas-abt-bleeding-out-urban-gun-violence-book-review
3 part series. Baltimore Police misconduct and the Gun Trace Task Force.
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
Scorecard on California PDs – Modern Policing
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/scorecard-on-california-pds/amp/
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