scholarly journals Body-Worn Cameras and Adjudication of Citizen Complaints of Police Misconduct

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suat Çubukçu ◽  
Nusret Sahin ◽  
Erdal Tekin ◽  
Volkan Topalli
Keyword(s):  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Citizen Complaints

Body-Worn Cameras and Adjudication of Citizen Complaints of Police Misconduct

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suat Çubukçu ◽  
Nusret Sahin ◽  
Erdal Tekin ◽  
Volkan Topalli
Keyword(s):  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Citizen Complaints

Zero Tolerance: A Case Study of Police Policies and Practices in New York City

1999 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith A. Greene
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Citizen Complaints ◽  
Policing Strategy ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Zero Tolerance Policing

The police reforms introduced in New York City by William Bratton are now hailed by Mayor Rudy Giuliani as the epitome of “zero-tolerance” policing, and he credits them for winning dramatic reductions in the city's crime rate. But the number of citizen complaints filed before the Civilian Complaint Review Board has jumped skyward, as has the number of lawsuits alleging police misconduct and abuse offorce. Comparison of crime rates, arrest statistics, and citizen complaints in New York with those in San Diego—where a more problem-oriented community policing strategy has been implemented—gives strong evidence that effective crime control can be achieved while producing fewer negative impacts on urban neighborhoods.

Police misconduct: accountability of internal investigations

2010 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 613-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Lamboo
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Major Type ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Code Of Silence ◽  
Citizen Complaints ◽  
Formal Relation ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Official Data

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to report the findings of an analysis of official data on police misconduct, providing new insights into the nature and extent of police misconduct and in the official response to police misconduct. Next to the use of force and neglect of duty, private time misconduct is a major type of (alleged) misconduct although it is often discarded from theoretical conceptions of police misconduct. The analysis also showed that two‐thirds of internal investigations are the result of an internal report. This paper shows that official data on police misconduct can result in new insights in the nature and extent of police misconduct and is therefore a relevant source for academic analysis.Design/methodology/approachAn analysis of official data on police misconduct is compared with theoretical notions of police misconduct, internal investigations and reliability of official data.FindingsThe implementation of a uniform Registration of Internal Investigations for all Dutch police forces has resulted in a clear increase in the number of registered investigations. This seems to be due to a combination of increased strictness on (alleged) misconduct and an improved quality of the registration. The analysis also showed that two‐thirds of the investigations are the result of an internal report. This places a new perspective on the so‐called code of silence among police officers. However, information on the extent and nature of complaints that are dealt with through the complaints procedure is lacking. The complaints procedure has also no formal relation with the disciplinary or criminal procedures.Research limitations/implicationsOfficial data on police misconduct have to be viewed with a critical eye. The analyses showed however that the Dutch data seem fairly reliable. Additional research should place the official data in further perspective, e.g. through case studies and through a control of the registration with the files of the Bureaux of Internal Investigations. Finally, a comparison with official data in other countries is needed.Practical implicationsThe Dutch police should improve its complaints procedures and the complaints registration.Originality/valueAcademic analysis of police misconduct is often limited to case studies of scandals or focuses on citizen complaints. The paper gives a broader perspective by using official data.

scholarly journals Body-Worn Cameras and Adjudication of Citizen Complaints of Police Misconduct

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suat Çubukçu ◽  
Nusret M Sahin ◽  
Erdal Tekin ◽  
Volkan Topalli
Keyword(s):  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Citizen Complaints

scholarly journals Prioritization of public services for digitalization using fuzzy Z-AHP and fuzzy Z-WASPAS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duygu Sergi ◽  
Irem Ucal Sari
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Fast Response ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Citizen Complaints ◽  
Criteria Weights ◽  
Available Information ◽  
First Time

AbstractIn this paper, public services are analyzed for implementations of Industry 4.0 tools to satisfy citizen expectations. To be able to prioritize public services for digitalization, fuzzy Z-AHP and fuzzy Z-WASPAS are used in the analysis. The decision criteria are determined as reduced cost, fast response, ease of accessibility, reduced service times, increase in the available information and increased quality. After obtaining criteria weights using fuzzy Z-AHP, health care services, waste disposal department, public transportation, information services, social care services, and citizen complaints resolution centers are compared using fuzzy Z-WASPAS that is proposed for the first time in this paper. Results show that health care services have dominant importance for the digitalization among public services.

scholarly journals The Network Structure of Police Misconduct

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 237802311987979 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Wood ◽  
Daria Roithmayr ◽  
Andrew V. Papachristos
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Network Ties ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Using Data

Conventional explanations of police misconduct generally adopt a microlevel focus on deviant officers or a macrolevel focus on the top-down organization of police departments. Between these levels are social networks of misconduct. This study recreates these networks using data on 16,503 complaints and 15,811 police officers over a six-year period in Chicago. We examine individual-level factors associated with receiving a complaint, the basic properties of these misconduct networks, and factors related to officer co-naming in complaints. We find that the incidence of police misconduct is associated with attributes including race, age, and tenure and that almost half of police officers are connected in misconduct ties in broader networks of misconduct. We also find that certain dyadic factors, especially seniority and race, strongly predict network ties and the incidence of group misconduct. Our results provide actionable information regarding possible ways to leverage the co-complaint network structure to reduce misconduct.

scholarly journals Police Misconduct, Community Opposition, and Urban Governance in New York City, 1945–1965

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Themis Chronopoulos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
York City ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
World War ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Black Freedom

In the post–World War II period, the police department emerged as one of the most problematic municipal agencies in New York City. Patrolmen and their superiors did not pay much attention to crime; instead they looked the other way, received payoffs from organized crime, performed haphazardly, and tolerated conditions that were unacceptable in a modern city with global ambitions. At the same time, patrolmen demanded deference and respect from African American civilians and routinely demeaned and brutalized individuals who appeared to be challenging their authority. The antagonism between African Americans and the New York Police Department (NYPD) intensified as local and national black freedom organizations paid more attention to police behavior and made police reform one of their main goals.

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