New Approaches to Data-Driven Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement: An Introduction to the Second NACOLE/<i>CJPR</i>Special Issue

Stageman, Daniel L.; Napolitano, Nicole M; Buchner, Brian R.

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“…Also, as argued by Stageman et al . (2018), for example, oversight should be treated as an activity integral to the efforts of policing itself.…”

Section: Civilian Oversight Of the Police: Conceptual Contextsupporting

confidence: 55%

“…Nonetheless, in this author's view, and in agreement with Stephens et al (2018) and Wentkowska (2016), while those reviews and surveys are informative, due to the significant variation of oversight from one jurisdiction or country to another, it is unreasonable to make broad generalities. However, a discussion of those issues is beyond the scope of this work but some excellent analytical views in that regard can be found elsewhere (see, for example, Amnesty International, 2015; Byrne and Priestley, 2017;De Angelis et al, 2016a, 2016b; European Partners Against Corruption (EPAC), 2011; Evenson, n.d. ;Finn, 2001;Guzmán-Sánchez and Espirú-Guerra, 2014;Hope, 2019a;IACP, 2000;Miller and Merrick, 2002;Roach, 2014;Sen, 2010;Stageman et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(2018), for example, oversight should be treated as an activity integral to the efforts of policing itself. ‘The independence and civilian leadership of police oversight are a procedural necessity rather than a functional one, designed to ensure that oversight decision-making is guided by community standards and universal ideals rather than factionally defined, narrow self-interest’ (Stageman et al ., 2018: 124–125). Key among those standards and ideals are the principles of democratic policing.…”

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Civilian oversight of the police: The case of Kenya

Hope¹

2019

The Police Journal

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Although more and more countries across the globe are moving toward independent civilian oversight of their police, that is not the case in Africa, where only Kenya and South Africa have followed that route. This work offers an analytical review and assessment case study of the practice of civilian oversight of the police and its application in Kenya. It quantitatively evaluates the performance of civilian oversight, set against the practice of civilian oversight of the police, and drawing heavily also on the background and field experience of the author, who served in Kenya in various policy adviser capacities.

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“…Also, as argued by Stageman et al . (2018), for example, oversight should be treated as an activity integral to the efforts of policing itself.…”

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Civilian oversight of the police: The case of Kenya

Hope¹

2019

The Police Journal

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“…Certainly organizational culture is not the only influence on police behavior: Muir, 1977, a seminal work on policing, highlighted the fact that different officers respond to the challenges and expectations of the job in very different ways. Moreover, recent work suggests that with increasing diversity in police departments and with other reform efforts, the traditional culture may be starting to break apart-at least in bigger departments (White et al, 2010;Walker, 2018;Stageman, Napolitano, and Buchner, 2018). Saunders, Kotzias, and Ramchand, 2019, found that many police departments are working to change a policing culture that stigmatizes discussions of mental health and are paying closer attention to officer well-being and stress-both of which can significantly affect decisionmaking in the field.…”

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Police Killings: Road Map of Research Priorities for Change

2021

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This report summarizes what is currently known about killings committed by police officers in the United States and identifies existing evidence about various ways to prevent them. A relatively large body of research on these topics exists, but these studies often suffer from methodological shortcomings, largely stemming from the dearth of available data on police killings. Recognizing the need for more-rigorous work to guide efforts to reform police-and, more specifically, to reduce police killings-this report presents work focused on the development of a research agenda, or a road map, to reduce police killings. The report, based on an extensive literature review as well as interviews with policing experts, presents a series of recommendations for areas in which research efforts may be most effective in helping inform policymaking and decisionmaking aimed at reducing police killings.

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“…Every community should define the appropriate form and structure of civilian oversight to meet the needs of that community" (2015, p. 26). Despite their recent rise to popularity in political discourse on police reform, and the fact that racism and sexism among police have been concerns of oversight commissions for several decades (Tormos-Aponte et al, 2021), there is a dearth of empirical research on the success and operations of these oversight commissions (Stageman et al, 2018).…”

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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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New Approaches to Data-Driven Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement: An Introduction to the Second NACOLE/CJPRSpecial Issue

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Civilian oversight of the police: The case of Kenya

Civilian oversight of the police: The case of Kenya

Police Killings: Road Map of Research Priorities for Change

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

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