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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 [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] 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 this idea [...] 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 [...] |
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