Police Criminality: Nature and Extent of Crimes Committed by Female Police Officers

2021 ◽  
pp. 109861112110440
Author(s):  
Francis D. Boateng ◽  
Ming-Li Hsieh ◽  
Daniel K. Pryce
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Multilevel Model ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Female Criminality ◽  
Considerable Controversy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Female Officers ◽  
Recent Attention

Given the recent attention focusing on “bad apples” in police departments across the country, police behaviors have been the subject of considerable controversy and protest. Still, research indicates that rates of officially reported police crime are relatively low. In addition, crimes committed by female officers are largely understudied in this male-dominated workplace. Therefore, the current study explores the attributes associated with police crime committed by female officers using national arrest data. Results obtained from a multilevel model demonstrate the influences of individual- and agency-level variables in explaining female officers’ criminality. Findings reveal that while on-duty female officers are more likely to commit economically motivated and drug-related crimes, off-duty officers are more likely to engage in violent and alcohol-related crimes. Moreover, contextual factors such as types of agency and numbers of sworn officers predicted female officers’ criminality. Current findings highlight the importance of policies that would directly address female criminality in law enforcement.

scholarly journals Female Criminality in Lebanon The Local Police Perspective

1970 ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
General Dr. Amin Saliba
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Female Criminality ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Law Enforcement Officials ◽  
Adequate Research

The following texts were submitted by two high ranking Lebanese Internal Security Forces (Police) officers following the request of the editor. Although the content of the articles do not involve adequate research methodology, the participation of law enforcement officials in attempting to understand female criminality is necessary for developing an insightful perspective.

Motivations for Police Support of Domestic Violence Response Team Implementation With Advocates

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780122093082
Author(s):  
Laura Johnson ◽  
Elisheva Davidoff ◽  
Abigail R. DeSilva
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
Response Team ◽  
Domestic Violence Organizations

In New Jersey, collaboration between police departments and advocates from domestic violence organizations is mandated by state policy, which requires law enforcement agencies to participate in domestic violence response teams (DVRTs). The purpose of this study is to examine factors that motivate police officers to implement DVRT. Twenty-four semi-structured interviews were conducted with DVRT coordinators and domestic violence liaison police officers. Findings suggest that police motivation for implementing the intervention is often influenced by perceived benefits to police response and investigation, perceived benefits to victims, the need to comply with mandates, and recognition of domestic violence as a serious crime.

scholarly journals Experience and effectiveness of practice-oriented training of voluntary people’s guard members based at the organizations of MIA of Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-165
Author(s):  
Ol'ga Guz
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Public ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Training Modules

The relevance of the subject matter of the article is determined by the increasing spread of volunteering in our country, in particular, the formation of voluntary people’s guards that are intended to assist all state authorities includinglaw enforcement agencies. The legal basis for cooperation between the police and the public is fixed in the corresponding statutory documents. The performanceof voluntary people’s patrol depends considerably on the level oflegal, moral and psychological competenceof its members allowing to interact withlaw enforcement officers. Vigilantesshould understand the specifics of human rights practices and law enforcement activities. The decrees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia define the procedure ofvigilante groupstraining, but their implementation requires the development of policy and methodological documentation. The article presents the analysis of the existing practice of vigilantes training atlaw enforcement agencies, and identifies deficiencies and contradictions in thelevel of their expertise. The article discusses the specific features of such training: its short-term duration, as well as the heterogeneous composition of thevigilante groups as to age and profession. The authorpresents experience in implementing specially developed program forvigilantestraining that is unique both in content and in methods used. The content is presented on the basis of classification of representative tasksthat have to be solved by voluntary people’s patrol in joint activities with police officers. These tasks formed the basis for the three training modules reviewed in the article («Minors», «Foreigners», «Maintenance of order»). Practice-oriented training methods include analysis of real situations that are presented in the classroom in various aspects and forms. Test and situational materials developedon their basis can be used in the process of training as well as for monitoring the effectiveness of the work performed. In conclusionthe author presentsthe analysis of the effectiveness of the suggested training program for vigilante groupas compared to the control group.

scholarly journals Mining the crime data using naïve Bayes model

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 1084
Author(s):  
Lourdes M. Padirayon ◽  
Melvin S. Atayan ◽  
Jose Sherief Panelo ◽  
Carlito R. Fagela, Jr
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Naive Bayes ◽  
Naïve Bayes ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Crime Data ◽  
Bayes Model ◽  
Massive Number ◽  
Index Crime

<p>A massive number of documents on crime has been handled by police departments worldwide and today's criminals are becoming technologically elegant. One obstacle faced by law enforcement is the complexity of processing voluminous crime data. Approximately 439 crimes have been registered in sanchez mira municipality in the past seven years. Police officers have no clear view as to the pattern crimes in the municipality, peak hours, months of the commission and the location where the crimes are concentrated. The naïve Bayes modelis a classification algorithm using the Rapid miner auto model which is used and analyze the crime data set. This approach helps to recognize crime trends and of which, most of the crimes committed were a violation of special penal laws. The month of May has the highest for index and non-index crimes and Tuesday as for the day of crimes. Hotspots were barangay centro 1 for non-index crimes and barangay centro 2 for index crimes. Most non-index crimes committed were violations of special law and for index crime rape recorded the highest crime and usually occurs at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The crime outcome takes various decisions to maximize the efficacy of crime solutions.</p>

scholarly journals Privatization of Law Enforcement

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Anastasia Konina
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Predictive Policing ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
Procurement Contracts ◽  
Elected Representatives

The year 2020 ushered in growing calls to defund the police. In Canada, as in other countries where the movement to defund the police has gained momentum, activists demand transferring money from police departments to social workers, reducing the number of police officers, and increasing police departments’ democratic accountability. This last group of reform initiatives is, perhaps, the least controversial one because it calls for improving the familiar structures of democratic oversight over police departments, such as municipal councils, independent police oversight boards and complaints bodies, and others. The demands for greater accountability of police departments to the public are a symptom of a deeper problem - there is a growing discrepancy between the goals of policing and the consequences of the police’s actions. This discrepancy materializes when the police’s attempts to ensure public safety result in the marginalization of racialized communities, particularly in larger cities across Canada. In order to understand why laudable policy goals lead to deeply problematic consequences, it is necessary to analyze the policing process in our cities. While it has traditionally been assumed that this process is left to the discretion of separate police departments, this paper demonstrates that externalities, such as data generated by private technologies, play an important role in undermining the goals of policing. Reliance on private data and technology does not absolve the police of accountability for resulting human rights violations. However, it has important implications for the reform of public oversight over the police. In an era when non-governmental actors are taking part in law enforcement through procurement contracts, democratic control over the exercise of the police’s contracting powers is an important, albeit often overlooked, instrument of police reform. Relying on contracts for predictive policing technologies as a case study, this paper argues that communities should condition the funding of police procurement on ex ante assessment procedures, technical specifications, and contract enforcement rights. Also, local elected representatives should have an opportunity to approve any data and technology sharing arrangements as well as federal standing offer arrangements that extend predictive policing to their communities.

De-Policing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Rushin ◽  
Griffin Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Mandated Reform ◽  
External Regulation ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Growing Pains ◽  
Law Enforcement Leaders

102 Cornell Law Review 721 (2017)Critics have long claimed that when the law regulates police behavior it inadvertently reduces officer aggressiveness, thereby increasing crime. This hypothesis has taken on new significance in recent years as prominent politicians and law enforcement leaders have argued that increased oversight of police officers in the wake of the events in Ferguson, Missouri has led to an increase in national crime rates. Using a panel of American law enforcement agencies and difference-in-difference regression analyses, this Article tests whether the introduction of public scrutiny or external regulation is associated with changes in crime rates. To do this, this Article relies on an original dataset of all police departments that have been subject to federally mandated reform under 42 U.S.C. § 14141 — the most invasive form of modern American police regulation. This Article finds that the introduction of § 14141 regulation was associated with a statistically significant uptick in some crime rates, relative to unaffected municipalities. This uptick in crime was concentrated in the years immediately after federal intervention and diminished over time. This finding suggests that police departments may expe- rience growing pains when faced with external regulation.

scholarly journals Perception of police on discrimination in Serbia - results of the survey on the attitudes of public order and traffic police officers

Temida ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-160
Author(s):  
Radomir Zekavica
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
The Public ◽  
Traffic Police ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Novi Sad

The paper analyzes the results of the research on the attitudes of the public order and traffic police officers in seven regional police departments in Serbia - Belgrade, Novi Sad, Subotica, Novi Sad, Nis, Kragujevac and Zajecar. The subject of the research is the analysis of the police attitudes on discrimination, recognition of its essence, the scope of vulnerability of particular social groups and recognition of the hate speech. Also, the subject of the research is: determination of relationship with measures which should improve the position of vulnerable groups and the relationship with the institutions in terms of their responsibility for the appearance of discrimination and its impact on the reduction, then the personal experience of discrimination and analysis of attitudes regarding certain claims of stereotypical character. The results of this research are given in the comparative analysis with the results of the research on the attitudes of members of the criminal police conducted in 2014, so we have indication of perception of discrimination by the police in all three key operating police areas. In regard to some issues, a comparative analysis of the results from the survey of citizens? attitudes towards discrimination conducted in 2013 by CESID is provided.

scholarly journals Peculiarities associated with police inquiry into administrative violations committed on the Internet

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Dmitrii Novgorodov
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Administrative Proceedings

The object of this research consists in public relations that form in the course of initiation of cases on administrative violations committed on the Internet as part of the duties of law enforcement agencies. The subject of this research is the federal legislation and departmental normative legal acts of the Russian Federation regulating the organization of work of different police units, as well as case law materials. Analysis is conducted on the national legislation, statistical data provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, case law on administrative violations that were committed on the Internet. Having analyzed the materials of cases on administrative violations committed on the Internet, the author concludes that the law enforcement agencies sometimes evade their official duties, and exercise functions not typical of their positions. For example, the district police officers monitor the Internet for prevention and identification of administrative offences in the area served by them; if evidence of an offence is detected, administrative proceedings are initiated. The author offers the ways for solving the indicated problem.

scholarly journals Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Goldstein ◽  
Michael W. Sances ◽  
Hye Young You
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Criminal Investigation ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Government Service ◽  
Revenue Collection ◽  
Local Police ◽  
Commuting Time

A growing body of evidence indicates that local police departments are being used to provide revenue for municipalities by imposing and collecting fees, fines, and asset forfeitures. We examine whether revenue collection activities compromise the criminal investigation functions of local police departments. We find that police departments in cities that collect a greater share of their revenue from fees solve violent and property crimes at significantly lower rates. The effect on violent crime clearance is more salient in smaller cities where police officers’ assignments tend not to be highly specialized. We find that this relationship is robust to a variety of empirical strategies, including instrumenting for fines revenue using commuting time. Our results suggest that institutional changes—such as decreasing municipal government reliance on fines and fees for revenue—are important for changing police behavior and improving the provision of public safety.

scholarly journals Case-based method of training in the formation of universal competencies of students in educational organizations of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-196
Author(s):  
Людмила Кузнецова ◽  
Lyudmila Kuznetsova ◽  
Людмила Осинцева ◽  
Lyudmila Osintseva
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Case Method ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
Definition Of

The article is devoted to the formation of universal competences of students in educational institutions of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia using the case-method of teaching. The authors have identified the main synonymous contradictions in the definition of the concept of “universal competence”. The main problems that lie in the choice of means and methods of development and the formation of universal competencies of students are highlighted. The subject of the study was determined the process of formation of universal competencies of students. The basic concepts of the competence approach are considered. It shows what universal competences should be formed in the framework of GEF3 ++ by a specialist in the specialty law enforcement. Disclosed the concept of educational technology, as well as the essence of the case-method of teaching. It schematically shows what the technological stages of the case-method of teaching consist of. An example of one of the mini-projects, which is aimed at the formation of universal competencies of students. Table 1 showed the stages of formation of universal competencies among students, and Table 2 showed the formation of universal competencies of students in a class on the basics of special ATS equipment. As a result of the study, it can be concluded that, in general, the case method allows to improve the educational process, involve students in the process of live communication, instill autonomy for searching, analyzing, extracting and evaluating information, which contributes to the process of developing universal competences of future police officers. In this paper, the following methods were applied: comparative analysis, case-method of teaching.

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