Robert Woodson talked about race relations and policing in the U.S. following the death of George Floyd.
— Read on www.c-span.org/video/
Tag: Police Use of Force
2022 RIPA Board Report
The California Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (Board) is pleased to release its fifth annual Report. The Report contains an analysis of the millions of police and pedestrian stops conducted in 2020 under the Racial and Identity Profiling Act (“RIPA”) by 18 law enforcement agencies, including the 15 largest agencies, in California. The Report closely examines a wide range of issue areas related to racial and identity profiling, providing context and research to deepen stakeholders’ understanding of the stop data collected under the RIPA. In the Executive Summary, the Board provides an overview of the Report. For ease of reference, there is a separate Recommendations and Best Practices section pulling out the Board’s recommendations in 2022. The Board encourages law enforcement agencies, policymakers, the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), community advocates, and individuals to use these recommendations and best practices as a platform for discussion and implementation of reforms that will improve public safety in California. The Board especially recognizes that the community is essential to any police reform and that agencies and government should include diverse community members to work in close partnership with them to improve police services in their communities and across California.
Download the full 2022 Report
The California State Attorney General Office can be found HERE
Past RIPA reports are available HERE
Equity is safer: Human rights considerations for policing reform in British Columbia – BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner
Equity is safer: Human rights considerations for policing reform in British Columbia – BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner
— Read on bchumanrights.ca/publications/scorpa/
A letter to the American public: There is no such thing as ‘the least’ amount of physical force
The notion of the least amount of force sounds nice, which makes it deceptively easy to believe – however, the concept is inherently flawed
Check out the article. It lays out an interesting discussion on how Use of Force is supposed to be determined when following the laws and policies.
See the article HERE
Office of the Maine AG: Police Shooting Reports
Here is a list of AG reports on Police Shootings. There is a link to archived reports that go back to 2007. Check them out.
— Read on www.maine.gov/ag/news/shooting_reports.shtml
Maine AG ruled all recent police shootings justified; experts weigh in
Experts say Maine is unusual but not unique, meaning other states could have the same key shortcoming undermining accountability and public trust.
— Read on www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/12/05/experts-call-reform-maine-attorney-general-police-shootings-justified/8835089002/
She Was Having a Seizure. Police Shocked Her With a Taser. | The Marshall Project
How an Alabama teen sought justice after a violent police encounter upended her life.
— Read on www.themarshallproject.org/2021/12/02/she-was-having-a-seizure-police-shocked-her-with-a-taser
Madison Police Department Sentinel Event Review (SER)
Columbus police use force most against Black residents, study finds
Black residents were subjects of more than half of the use-of-force incidents by Columbus police from 2017 to 2019, according to Accountable Now.
— Read on www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2021/11/11/columbus-police-use-force-most-against-black-residents-study-finds/6373146001/
Accountable Now
Here is an interesting database for tracking police use of force.
Accountable Now collects data on police behavior from United States law enforcement agencies to share the truth about how often police use force.
— Read on www.accountablenow.com/