scholarly journals Gun Victimization in the Line of Duty: Fatal and Non-Fatal Firearm Assaults on Police Officers in the United States, 2014-2019

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Sierra-Arévalo ◽  
Justin Nix
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States

The Effect of a Narrated Video of an Arrest on Civilians’ Perceptions of Police

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Giaimo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Perceptions Of Police

Trust of the police is at a 22-year low in the United States (Jones, 2015). Many police departments hold community discussions in an attempt to educate civilians and increase trust in the police (Star, 2017). This research explores whether an in depth, play-by-play explanation of force used during a video of a violent arrest can increase civilians’ perceptions of the police. Participants either watched a video of a violent arrest with narration or the same video with no narration. The narrator explained the tactics used by the police officers and how the tactics were used to avoid escalation of the violence during the arrest. After viewing one of the videos, both groups filled out the Perceptions of Police (POP) scale to indicate the participants’ feelings about the police. The type of video watched did not influence POP scores, however two interactions were significant. These results suggest that the police should focus on other methods of gaining the trust of Americans.

Politics, Safety, and Officer-Involved Intimate Partner Violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 227-245
Author(s):  
Leigh Goodmark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Political Decisions

The United States relies heavily on law enforcement to protect people subjected to intimate partner violence. The decision to prioritize law enforcement intervention may seem natural, but it is, in fact a political decision, with consequences along three dimensions. First, prioritizing the law enforcement response has precluded the development of other policies to address intimate partner violence. Second, channeling money into law enforcement helped to facilitate the growth of a hypermasculine, militarized environment where violence against women flourishes. Third, the decision to rely on law enforcement ignores research establishing that police officers are more likely than other groups to commit intimate partner violence. These political decisions have profound consequences for all people subjected to abuse, particularly the partners of police officers.

A Critical Race Perspective of Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Males in the United States: Implications for Social Work

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon E. Moore ◽  
Michael A. Robinson ◽  
Dewey M. Clayton ◽  
A. Christson Adedoyin ◽  
Daniel A. Boamah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Black Males ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Work Education

Recent high-profile killings of unarmed Black males underscore a stark reality in America: though Black men have the same constitutional rights as all other citizens of the United States, in practice their rights are often violated. The negative stereotype that all Black males are criminals has created an environment that perpetuates the killing of unarmed Black males by police officers as justifiable self-defense. In this article, critical race theory (CRT) provides a theoretical lens to examine and understand the persistent racism underlying the social inequities that have been thrust upon Black males in the United States of America. The authors conclude with implications and recommendations for social work education.

Police Body Cameras and Professional Responsibility: Public Records and Private Evidence

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacy E. Wood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
District Attorneys ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
Video Documentation

Abstract:Extensive media coverage has focused attention on the disproportionate frequency and severity of police use of force against black communities in the United States. Video documentation captured by public officials and private citizens aided by the ubiquity of cell phones has made this violence inescapable, enabling conversations of system-wide problems within a mainstream context. Video documentation has been posed as a means of increasing transparency on the part of police and the district attorneys tasked with the decision of whether or not a police shooting requires the indictment of an officer. This documentation is also simultaneously posed as a check against the unmitigated authority of officer testimony, as a financial windfall for companies selling the technology, and as the ultimate exoneration for police officers attempting to justify their decisions in the field. These concurrent rhetorical registers operate in different domains and rarely overlap. The enormous amount of attention that has been focused on body-camera programs belies a techno-utopian impulse, an investment in a technological fix to complex and interlocking historical and socio-political realities. With this attention, funding has followed, pre-existing body-camera programs have been extended, and pilot programs have launched, presenting new challenges for police departments whose resources cannot meet the fiscal demands of a dramatic technological shift in a short period of time. Similarly, policies and laws regarding these devices themselves as well as the footage they capture have been sluggish to coalesce around coherent principles. This paper examines the emergent markets, policies, and laws governing the footage captured by police-worn body cameras in the United States and employs this footage as a way to reckon with complex ethical issues for information professionals.

scholarly journals To predict and to manage. Predictive policing in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 205395171986170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bilel Benbouzid
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Police Work ◽  
Training Dataset ◽  
Predictive Policing ◽  
Crime Prediction ◽  
Critical Movement

This article offers a detailed examination of the content of predictive policing applications. Crime prediction machines are used by governments to shape the moral behavior of police. They serve not only to predict when and where crime is likely to occur, but also to regulate police work. They calculate equivalence ratios, distributing security across the territory based on multiple cost and social justice criteria. Tracing the origins of predictive policing in the Compstat system, this article studies the shift from machines to explore intuitions (where police officers still have control over the machine) to applications removing the reflexive dimension of proactivity, thus turning prediction into the medium for “dosage” metrics of police work quantities. Finally, the article discusses how, driven by a critical movement denouncing the discriminatory biases of predictive machines, developers seek to develop techniques to audit training dataset and ways to calculate the reasonable amount of stop and frisk over the population.

scholarly journals Underreporting of Justifiable Homicides Committed by Police Officers in the United States, 1976–1998

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (7) ◽  
pp. 1117-1121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Loftin ◽  
Brian Wiersema ◽  
David McDowall ◽  
Adam Dobrin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Representations of Policing Problems and Body-Worn Cameras in Existing Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 105756772110208
Author(s):  
Christel Backman ◽  
Cecilia Hansen Löfstrand
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Blind Review ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Problem Representations

In this article, we analyze scholarly publications on body-worn cameras (BWCs) to shed light on scholars’ grounding assumptions about BWC technology and the policing problems assumed to be amended by it. We conducted a systematic search and a double-blind review, including 90 peer-reviewed journal articles, and analyzed how scholars warrant their studies, their findings and their recommendations. We found that BWC research largely investigates the effectiveness of BWCs worn by police officers in the United States and build upon a set of dominant policing problem representations: the police crisis in the United States and the police use of force, lack of oversight and control of police officers, citizen dissatisfaction and lack of police legitimacy, and police officer resistance toward BWC use. Assumptions underlying all four problem representations is that BWC technology will amend these problems and is legitimate and useful if the public supports it. Taken together, this enhances the representation of BWC technology as a self-evident means of improving community relations and police legitimacy in the United States. Finally, we provide recommendations for future research on BWCs, particularly the need for research departing from altogether different problem representations.

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