Tag: Policy

War Comes Home At America’s Expense: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing-SWAT

This is an interesting publication. The ACLU conducts an analysis of SWAT. In the publication there is the analysis, the findings, and recommendations. Then in an Appendix there are a MOU, policy, training PowerPoint, operational plan. These documents provide a unique perspective (an insiders view) on a SWAT deployment.

I think this would be a perfect resource for Criminal Justice courses or for students reporting on SWAT or policing.

www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf

Independent Review of Portland Police Culture

The City’s framing of the review, which ultimately resulted in this Report, was as follows:

Community Perception of Racial Bias: Are PPB’s policies, culture, actions, or outcomes driven by racial bias? If so, what is the extent of any racial bias, what are the root causes of any racial bias, and what are the best practices to addresses those root causes?

Community Perception of Political Bias: Are PPB’s policies, culture, actions, or outcomes driven by political bias? If so, what is the extent of any political bias, what are the root causes of any political bias, and what are the best practices to address those root causes?

Community Perception that PPB is Resistant to Change: Are PPB’s policies, culture, actions, or outcomes resistant to change sought by the community? If so, what is the extent of this resistance, what are the root causes of this resistance, and what are the best practices to address that resistance?www.oirgroup.com/_files/ugd/c0d762_16aaa9fa1dfa4b0b87a74352fe5d520c.pdf

Through our analysis of the database, the NYCLU found:

The vast majority of police misconduct complaints never result in accountability. *The use of “complaint” in this report refers to each discrete act of misconduct investigated by the CCRB, or what the CCRB calls “allegations.”

• Of the 180,700 complaints investigated by the CCRB since 2000, only two percent received some type of discipline from

the NYPD, and less than one percent received serious discipline, like forfeiting vacation days, suspension, probation, or termination.

• The NYPD overrode the CCRB’s recommendation by imposing a lesser grade of discipline or imposing no discipline in 74 percent of substantiated cases (meaning cases in which

misconduct is found to be improper based on a preponderance of the evidence).

• Only three percent of force complaints and complaints involving a firearm investigated by the CCRB were substantiated.

• 80 percent of substantiated

complaints that received a disciplinary recommendation of “Charges and Specifications” from the CCRB – the most serious recommendation – did not result in serious discipline (forfeiting vacation days, suspension, probation, or termination) from the NYPD.

• Black officers were 33 percent more likely to receive serious discipline than white officers.

www.nyclu.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/nyclu-2021-ccrbdata-report.pdf

Reimagining Public Safety | AustinTexas.gov

What’s New
January 2022
Report offers ‘Roadmap’ to addressing inequities in Austin Policing

This is the MAIN website to access all of the public safety initiatives. It looks like they do a very good job continuously updating what has been achieved, what they are working on, and what is future projects. From here or you can go to the different topics at the top of the page and search for what interests you. There are two other posts that pertain for lawn Forssman so if you search my blog page for Austin Police you’ll get the other two posts that are specific to policing.
— Read on www.austintexas.gov/publicsafety