Does Honesty Kill?

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 [...]

NPMSRP 2009 Preliminary Police Misconduct Statistical Report

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 [...]

2009 NPMSRP Semi-Annual Police Misconduct Statistics Report -UPDATED

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 [...]

The Chicago Solution?

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 [...]

With Leaders Like These...

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 [...]

207 Times

Some might recall Fort Worth Texas for settling a lawsuit for $50,000 to a deaf man who’s nose was broken by a police officer for trying to explain to the cop that he was deaf and couldn’t understand the officer’s commands during a traffic stop.

Or, you may recall Fort Worth as the city [...]

Is There More To Dolton Than Meets The Eye?

Members of a militaristic looking Dolton Illinois police department using an armored personnel carrier during a standoff in 2008

There’s trouble in Dolton Illinois, and it may go beyond the highly publicized videotaped beating of a special needs student by a Dolton police officer with a worrisome past.

By now, most people are aware [...]

Police Efforts Against Accountability Never Stop

As Radley Balko at The Agitator reports today in regards to a recent San Francisco Appeal article, newly minted San Francisco police chief George Gascón wants to implement an “amnesty program” for the officers under his command who are accused of, what he feels are, minor cases of police misconduct.

The first problem with [...]

The Peter Police Principle

The Peter Principle is an established theory which states that people in businesses are promoted to their level of incompetency. Is there a similar phenomenon in the law enforcement business too? [...]