I thought I would try something new this month and devote an article to various reports that covered police accountability/transparency policy issues for the month. These reports generally don’t go into the statistical reports, but they do affect those statistics so I thought it would be a good idea to go over those reports each [...]
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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 [...] One of the things I try to keep aware of in the course of this project is that what I’m doing is not popular. So, while disappointing, it shouldn’t have been surprising that the NPMSRP was turned down for funding by the Open Society Institute’s Justice Fellowship and that the OSI has never awarded a [...] 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 [...] 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. Adding local law enforcement statistics to the Semi-Annual Report seemed so significant that I decided it was worth an updated post. Introduction The National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project utilizes news [...] I’m pretty busy today between work, prepping for the monthly statistical report, manning the news feed, and working on city/county statistics as well… but I decided it would be a good idea to explain what the problems in Chicago that I hinted at in my last post really mean. First, we know about the Chicago Justice [...] On the same day a study released a damning report finding that Chicago’s civil service review board overturns decisions to discipline police officers found to have committed acts of misconduct in a majority of cases and that officers found to have committed misconduct are rarely fired because of this… The city announced that they are moving [...] According to the DOJ/FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program there are 14,169 county and city law enforcement agencies that participate in their UCR statistics gathering project on crime rates in the US. We can estimate from there that there are, perhaps, at least 15,000 law enforcement agencies in the US since one state, West Virginia, [...] Labor unions exist, theoretically, to do little more than defend the interests of that union’s members against the interests of those that employ those members. On the face of it, there isn’t anything inherently wrong with this arrangement, in fact it should be viewed as necessary in some situations. But, there can be problems with the [...] A reader recently commented that he won’t visit the site anymore since I’ve applied for funding from the OSI Justice Fellowship, claiming that there’s some sort of partisan conspiracy involved or something. Is there? Not that I know of, but even if there was… this site was never about partisan politics and never will be. If [...] |
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