Tag: Policy

Guidance for ethical and professional behaviour in policing | College of Policing

QUESTION: Are the police officers given the same benefit of these ethical principles? For example when a police officer makes an error when working are they fired or give an opportunity to be retrained a correct their conduct? When false accusations are made against police officers are complainants arrested and prosecuted?

Guidance to help put the ethical policing principles into day-to-day practice and outline the expectations of how policing professionals should behave.
— Read on www.college.police.uk/ethics/code-of-ethics/guidance

Michigan State Police – 4 unique reports

Michigan State Police Traffic Enforcement: An Assessment of Policies, Training, and Operations

Exploring Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Michigan State Police Traffic Stops Using the Veil of Darkness Methodology (2021 Data)

Michigan State Police Traffic Stop External Benchmarking: A Final Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities (2020 Data)

Traffic Stop Data: 2017-2019

— Read on www.michigan.gov/msp/public-information/transparency/accordion/reports/traffic-stop-data-main

Hardening the System: Three Commonsense Measures to Help Keep Crime at Bay | Manhattan Institute

After a long period of continuous violent-crime declines throughout the U.S.—spanning from the mid-1990s through the early 2010s—many American cities are now seeing significant increases in violence. Nationally, in 2015 and 2016, murders rose nearly 11% and 8%, respectively.[1] The national homicide rate declined slightly in 2017 and 2018, before ticking upward in 2019.[2] In 2020, […]
— Read on manhattan.institute/article/hardening-the-system-three-commonsense-measures-to-help-keep-crime-at-bay

Adults With Mental Illness Are Overrepresented in Probation Population | The Pew Charitable Trusts

Adults on probation—supervision imposed by the court generally in lieu of incarceration—are more than twice as likely to have a serious or moderate mental illness as those in the general public, according to analysis of federal data from 2015 to 2019 by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
— Read on www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2024/01/adults-with-mental-illness-are-overrepresented-in-probation-population

See a .PDF version of the report HERE