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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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Introduction This report is a 6 month aggregation of statistical information gathered by the National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP) in the months of April through September of 2009. The project utilizes media reports of police misconduct to generate statistical information on police misconduct in order to approximate the prevalence of police misconduct in the [...] |
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