Long-time readers of this site know that one of my pet projects is finding a way to use the statistics generated by this National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP) to do more than just give us a hint at how prevalent police misconduct is in the United States. One of the experimental models [...]
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As some of you may know, I’m not publishing monthly statistical reports anymore. The reason for this was based on what I was seeing with the traffic to the site and how various search engines rank the pages on the site. Basically, the problem that I’ve been seeing is that when people visit here doing searches [...] I recently had a call from a reporter, Lisa Miller from NPR affiliate 90.7 WFAE in Charlotte North Carolina, who was interested in finding out how many police officers were charged with a criminal offense in 2009. This question was prompted by a recent case involving an officer now facing numerous charges for allegedly sexually [...] Non-interactive push-pin map of police misconduct incidents recorded by the NPMSRP within the last 8.5 months of 2009 NOTE: To see the reports that were used to generate this map please refer to the 2009 Aggregate Police Misconduct Reports in the database menu bar at top. For more maps and info about [...] In 2006, US Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia rendered an opinion in Hudson v Michigan concerning a Fourth Amendment violation case in which he heralded a previously unannounced age of “New Professionalism” for US law enforcement. This new age cited reforms in accountability that would remove the need for civil rights protections as police departments [...] When people look at the Semi-Annual NPMSRP police misconduct statistical report, and the above map contained within it in particular, one point of criticism always comes to the forefront… What’s up with Vermont?!? Well, the answer is somewhat complicated, but mostly has to do with sample size. If you didn’t read closely, the Police Misconduct Rate (PMR) is [...] UPDATE: For more current statistics, including our 2009 Annual Report that contains all data from 2009, please visit our Police Misconduct Statistical Report menu page. Introduction The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project utilizes news media reports of police misconduct to generate statistical information in an effort to approximate how prevalent police misconduct may be [...] In case you didn’t know, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office in Florida received a “Flagship Agency” certification from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies during one of their “tri-annual re-accreditation ceremonies in Salt Lake City, Utah this month. The Lake Wales News reports that this is the sixth time the agency was re-accredited [...] As I mentioned previously, I’ve been working on a new way to analyze the data the NPMSRP gathers in order to create some sort of metric that would help predict where police misconduct is likely to trend upwards or downward in the future and give some indication as to why police misconduct rates might trend [...] The NPMSRP has certainly come a long way from when I first started an alpha version in May of this year… but, while the NPMSRP statistics we currently generate might help identify which states have a higher rate of misconduct, they don’t help us figure out WHY some states have higher misconduct rates than other [...] |
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