SWAT Unit Proactive Search Warrant Deployments: A Mixed Effects Model Exploration

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 792-804
Author(s):  
Adam Dobrin ◽  
Seth W Fallik ◽  
Brian P Mello
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Inverse Relationship ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Fixed Effects Models ◽  
American Police ◽  
Search Warrant

Abstract This research examines American police operations by Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) units. In this study, SWAT unit proactive search warrant deployments in Maryland over a 4-year period (2010–13) were analysed to see if they were influenced by violent crime rates, property crimes rates, vice crime rates, and the number of sworn law enforcement officers across four models (two random effects and fixed effects models). The results reveal an inverse relationship between proactive vice type arrests and SWAT unit proactive search warrant deployments. The results are discussed as they inform SWAT unit policies in a democracy.

The legacy of military dictatorship: Explaining violent crime in democracies

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Frantz
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Military Dictatorship ◽  
Homicide Rates ◽  
The Military ◽  
Cross National

Violent crime rates have increased dramatically in many parts of the world in recent decades, with homicides now outpacing deaths due to interstate or civil wars. Considerable variations exist across democracies in their violent crime rates, however: different autocratic experiences help explain why this is the case. Democracies emerging from military rule have higher homicide rates because they typically inherit militarized police forces. This creates a dilemma after democratization: allowing the military to remain in the police leads to law enforcement personnel trained in defense rather than policing, but extricating it marginalizes individuals trained in the use of violence. The results of cross-national statistical tests are shown to be consistent with this argument.

Local Political Structures and Violent Crime in U.S. Cities

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Ren ◽  
Jihong Zhao ◽  
Nicholas P. Lovrich
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
The Impact

To date, few criminological studies have explored the patterned ways in which local political structures might affect crime. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of local political structures on variations in violent crime rates in U.S. cities. A longitudinal data set collected from the same 280 cities in 1993, 1996, 2000, and 2003 is used to look into this question. Results from negative binomial fixed-effects panel analyses indicate that local government structures make only a limited contribution to variation in violent crime and that impact on violent crime is a conditioned effect in association with a relative deprivation index. Socioeconomic variables associated with relative deprivation consistently predict violent crime levels across U.S. cities, largely irrespective of the character of their local political structures.

Law Enforcement Challenges to Gathering Intelligence in the Street

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-40
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Budd ◽  
Michael W. Littrell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Constitution ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Legal Compliance ◽  
Intelligence Gathering ◽  
Search Warrant

Intelligence gathering by law enforcement officers has been used in the conviction of criminals for many years in the United States. Law enforcement officers must ensure that the information gathered and seized does not violate the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. However, officers, even though acting in the spirit of the law, may not be in legal compliance. This chapter identifies and discusses the requirements of a search warrant, the legally accepted exceptions to the search warrant requirements in the United States, and reviews several historical and modern United States Supreme Court cases on the gathering of intelligence by officers.

Assault of Police

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 899-925 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Bierie
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Substantial Portion ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Situational Characteristics ◽  
Regression Framework

The assault of law enforcement officers is an important but understudied topic. To better understand this form of violence, this study drew on the National Incident–Based Reporting System—the nation’s largest data set tracking assaults against police alongside detailed information on situations surrounding attacks. Risk factors were examined within a fixed-effects logistic regression framework via a case-control method in which all incidents involving assault against police ( n = 20,140) were compared with a random sample of arrest encounters that did not involve this form of aggression ( n = 20,118). The data showed that a number of victim, offender, and situational characteristics predicted violence against officers, and the models were able to explain a substantial portion of the variance. Implications for research are discussed.

Predicting the Rate with Which Law Enforcement Officers are Murdered

1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 578-578
Author(s):  
David Lester
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Homicide Rate ◽  
Time Series Study ◽  
American Police ◽  
Series Study

In a time-series study of data from 1961 to 1985, the rate with which American police officers were killed by civilians was best predicted by the general homicide rate and the rate of justifiable homicide by police officers.

scholarly journals PENEGAKAN HUKUM OLEH POLISI DALAM TINDAK PIDANA KEKERASAN OLEH ANAK YANG BERBASIS KEADILAN DI KABUPATEN SIAK INDRAPURA

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hari Budiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Special Unit ◽  
Violent Acts

<p>The inappropriate handling of juvenile delinquency and the hesitancy of law enforcement officers in dealing with crimes committed by children, directly or indirectly, have led to social aberrations. Police officers seem to lose the concept of dealing with violent crimes committed by children. Therefore, Police as guardian, protector, and public servant as well as law enforcement officers are required to quickly respond in response to the negative image.</p><p>The problem studied in this research is law enforcement by police in violation of child abuse and how implication to the realization of justice in Siak Indrapura Regency, obstacle factor in law enforcement by police in violent crime by child so that the realization of justice has not been reached in Siak Indrapura Regency and the construction of law enforcement by the police against violent acts by children so that the realization of justice can be achieved in Siak Indrapura Regency.</p><p>The method used in this research is with socio-legal research approach that comes from collecting data obtained from primary data and secondary data, then analyzed by qualitative analysis method.</p><p>The results of this study ultimately provide an answer that law enforcement by the police in the crime of child abuse and how the implication of the realization of justice in Siak Indrapura Regency is still using violence to get the acknowledgment or information from the child offender of the crime in the investigation. The forms of violence committed by investigators are physical, psychological, or legal. Inhibiting factors in law enforcement by the police in violent acts by children so that the realization of justice has not been achieved in Siak Indrapura Regency due to lack of funding to support the implementation or activities that support the development of Decent City Children (KLA) in Siak Indrapura Regency, besides the slow recording of cases of violence which occurs in children due to the lack of manpower (Human Resources). In addition, the construction of law enforcement by the police against violent crime by children is to build or create a professional police that must be started at the stage of selection and education, so that the police have high standards of ethics and expertise, so that it can be achieved law enforcement in the enforcement of the enforcement law against child perpetrators of violent crime.</p><p>Suggestion from this research is polisian of Regency of Siak Indrapura should have special unit that really focus and routinely doing counseling and socialization to society related to violent crime committed by child.</p><p><strong>Keywords: <em>Law Enforcement, Police, Crime, Violence, Children and Justice.</em></strong></p>

Victimological aspects of violent crime in the family and household sphere

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Bochkareva
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Violent Crime ◽  
Law Enforcement Officers ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Foreign Experience ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family And Household

In the monograph, the author reflects the criminological characteristics of violent crime in the family and household sphere, defines the role of the victim in the commission of this category of crimes and gives their victimological characteristics, examines the foreign experience of victimological prevention of domestic violence, and also suggests measures for such prevention in Russia. It is recommended for law enforcement officers, teachers, researchers, graduate students and law students.

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