Something interesting caught my eye the other day as I was reading Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice blog. Apparently, FoxNews ran a piece the other day in which a professor from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice suggested that police are being targeted and that sites like this one are to blame because we [...]
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The above map displays the number of law enforcement officers associated with reports of police misconduct in the first half of 2010. (click on the map for a larger image) Introduction The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP) was started in March of 2009 as a method of recording and [...] Given that it’s been a long time since I last explained this, and since there have been more people sending links to reports lately in an effort to help, I thought it was a good time to go over our reporting methodology again. Why is methodology important? Our reporting methodology is very important [...] In the years that I’ve been monitoring and researching the issue of police misconduct I’ve noticed some prevalent, and quite successful, arguments used by those who feel there is no need for improved police accountability and transparency and that police misconduct isn’t a problem worthy of attention. However, the statistics generated by the NPMSRP [...] Some readers may remember the above map that displayed a comparison between laws that govern police transparency and the number of law enforcement officer deaths per state in 2009. It was part of an article I wrote to determine if the common rationalization for keeping police misconduct records secret, that it is a matter [...] Introduction The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP) was started in March of 2009 as a method of recording and analyzing police misconduct in the United States through the utilization of news media reports to generate statistical and trending information about police misconduct in the United States. As part of this project, [...] As we’re in the third month of this year, I’ve already started thinking about our Q1 Police Misconduct Statistical Report that I hope to put out sometime next month. In a departure from the way I did these in the past, I want to add some trending data to the reports, especially since the [...] Late last week a federal jury in Brooklyn NY awarded $16,600,000 to a man who lost a leg after a Nassau County NY Sheriff’s Detective crushed his legs with his police cruiser when arresting him on allegations that he was making harassing phone calls his ex. In making their decision, the jury decided [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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