Civilian Oversight for Democratic Policing and its Challenges: Overcoming Obstacles for Improved Police Accountability

Hope, Kempe Ronald

doi:10.1080/19361610.2020.1777807

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“…Investigating the challenge of meeting all these demands would be a vast undertaking, beyond the scope of our study. The focus of our study is to better understand the challenges of combining forms of accountability to meet internal demands from management and external demands for holding police divisions to account for what they do (Hope, 2021).…”

Section: Literature Review – Police Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The majority of studies in the policing literature have focused on the police's response to external accountability demands from parliament, judicial inquiries, government auditors, the courts and independent oversight bodies (see for example, Walsh and Conway, 2011; den Heyer and Beckley, 2013; de Angelis and Wolf, 2016). Most of these studies focus on the differing characteristics of independent oversight bodies and their effectiveness in investigating police misconduct (see for example, Chan, 1999; Chan and Dixon, 2007; de Angelis and Wolf, 2016; den Heyer and Beckley, 2013; Hope, 2021). The literature addressing internal demands for accountability has focused mainly on internal disciplinary powers, processes and police culture (Walsh and Conway, 2011).…”

Section: Literature Review – Police Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Combining accountability forms: transparency and “intelligent” accountability in a public service organization

O'Regan

King

Smith

2021

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PurposeThe paper's purpose is to consider the challenges, a public sector organization faces combining both transparency and “intelligent” forms of accountability (cf. Roberts, 2009).Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a case study of StatePol, a police service in an Australian state.FindingsThe data analysis revealed three themes. First, prior to 2013, transparency forms of accountability dominated, emphasizing crime statistics with the effect of reinforcing internal partitions and inhibiting collective action. Second, post-2013, a greater emphasis was placed on “intelligent” accountability with conversations around process and collective accountability at the operational level. Crime statistics were used less for operational-level accountability and more for attention-directing. Third, changing the emphasis from transparency to its combined use with “intelligent” accountability required strong leadership, clearly communicated strategy and middle-level managers with appropriate skills.Originality/valueThe authors identify a number of important factors in combining transparency and “intelligent” forms of accountability. The authors note the difficulties that fragmentation between forms of accountability and the somewhat amorphous nature of the accountability concept itself can cause. In doing so, the authors provide empirical evidence of the challenges changing from an emphasis on transparency, to combined use with an “intelligent” form of accountability.

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Section: Literature Review – Police Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review – Police Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Combining accountability forms: transparency and “intelligent” accountability in a public service organization

O'Regan

King

Smith

2021

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“…Many studies have looked into the role of civil society, media, the legislative branch, and the executive branch in providing oversight of the police, military, and intelligence agencies and emphasized democratic policing and especially community policing principles, as well as democratic oversight principles (Caparini 2004;Caparini & Cole 2008;Hope 2020a). For capacity development to succeed, it should be an 'an endogenous process, supported by external actors' (Born, Buckland & McDermott 2014: 17).…”

Section: Oversight and Accountabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dursun-Özkanca

2021

The Nexus Between Security Sector Governance/Reform and Sustainable Development Goal-16: An Examination of Conceptual Linkages

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Chapter 1. Introduction 1 a. A roadmap 3 b. The security-development nexus 3 c. United Nations' approach to the security-development nexus 4 d. Other international organizations' approaches to the security-development nexus 6 e. The security-development nexus debate in academia and policymaking 7 Chapter 2. Literature Review 11 a. The literature on SSG/R i. SSG/R and development ii. Critiques of the SSR-development nexus b. The literature on sustainable development, Agenda 2030, and SDG-16 i. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ii. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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“…The tremendous variability of racial vernaculars unfolds in relation to the variability of the commissions themselves, which has led some researchers to abandon hope for a comparative analysis that might offer generalizable conclusions beyond individual case studies (Engel et al. , 2020; Hope, 2020). For example, commissions differ tremendously as to the personnel who work on them as well as their founding charters and legal authority (Roach, 2014).…”

Section: Introduction: the Challenge Of Understanding Civilian-led Ov...mentioning

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The plurality of police oversight: a method for building upon lessons learned for understanding an evolving strategy

Karpiak

Mulla

Pérez

2022

PIJPSM

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PurposeThe purpose of this article is to describe an innovative research methods framework designed to address some of the persistent challenges to a social scientific understanding of civilian-led police oversight commissions.Design/methodology/approachThe project design begins by acknowledging that oversight commissions take multiple and varied forms, which are contingent on local histories, institutional dynamics and discursive strategies for indexing racial inequality. The authors find such variation not to be an impediment to insightful research design. Rather, the methodological frame makes use of multi-sited ethnographic methods, organized at the county level across three research clusters (in this example, Milwaukee Co, WI; San Diego Co., CA; and Washtenaw Co, MI), to draw attention to the effects of such multiplicity to complicate, localize and render visible the specific practices of policing and its critique through civilian oversight.FindingsAmongst an increasing national concern with the racialized nature of police violence, one evolving strategy for police reform among municipalities is to establish civilian oversight boards that can monitor, make recommendations for, and potentially direct police policy. However, there is very little research on such commissions, leaving many unanswered questions for proponents of evidence-based criminal justice policy. One reason for this lack is that the tremendous variability of such commissions has led some researchers to abandon hope for a comparative analysis which might offer generalizable conclusions beyond individual case studies. Lessons learned from previous reform efforts suggest that without a solid evidentiary basis, such reform efforts can easily succumb to institutional inertia or even failure. This danger is especially present when policy and practice recommendations are not based on research designs particularly attuned to making audible the experiences and concerns of the most marginalized targets of police attention.Originality/valueThe value of this method rests in its ability to provide comparative insights into the ways in which oversight commissions operate within a broader pluralized security landscape that both makes possible and constrains democratic participation along racial lines. The method contextualizes and renders audible ways of understanding, evaluating, and practicing democratic community as it is articulated through the issue of police and its oversight.

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Civilian Oversight for Democratic Policing and its Challenges: Overcoming Obstacles for Improved Police Accountability

Cited by 24 publications

References 68 publications

Combining accountability forms: transparency and “intelligent” accountability in a public service organization

Combining accountability forms: transparency and “intelligent” accountability in a public service organization

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The plurality of police oversight: a method for building upon lessons learned for understanding an evolving strategy

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