Who are the problem‐prone officers? An analysis of citizen complaints

Lersch, Kim Michelle; Mieczkowski, Tom

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“…Reviews of complaints against police from across the country show variation in rates at which complaints are sustained; however, most found the rate to be below 12 percent (Dugan and Breda ; Hassell and Archbold ; Hickman ; Liederbach et al. ; Manis, Archbold, and Hassell ; Michelle Lersch and Mieczkowski ; Terrill and Ingram ). A 2010 analysis of complaints made against a Midwestern law enforcement agency found that 62 percent of complaints were sustained (Hassell and Archbold ).…”

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Complaining While Black: Racial Disparities in the Adjudication of Complaints against the Police

Faber

Kalbfeld

2019

City & Community

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Reports of citizen complaints of police misconduct often note that officers are rarely disciplined for alleged misconduct. The perception of little officer accountability contributes to widespread distrust of law enforcement in communities of color. This project investigates how race and segregation shape the outcomes of allegations made against the Chicago Police Department (CPD) between 2011 and 2014. We find that complaints by black and Latino citizens and against white officers are less likely to be sustained. We show neighborhood context interacts with complainant characteristics: Incidents alleged by white citizens in high‐crime and predominantly black neighborhoods are more likely to be sustained. These findings provide context for understanding tensions between communities of color and the CPD. These results are consistent with theories that individual and institutional actors prioritize white victimhood and reflect the neighborhood effects literature stressing the interaction between individual and contextual factors in shaping outcomes.

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Complaining While Black: Racial Disparities in the Adjudication of Complaints against the Police

Faber

Kalbfeld

2019

City & Community

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“…The study found that police used no force in nearly four out of five arrests, and in the cases where force was used, it tended to be at the low end of the force spectrum. Lersch and Mieczkowski (1996) (Chaiken & Travis, 1997). Less than 1% of the respondents indicated that the police Hall and Votova (2013) examined both situational and subject characteristics in circumstances where subjects had been restrained by police officers in Canada in an effort to determine mortality rates proximal to the use of police restraint.…”

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Rates of Use of Force by Police Officers in Canada: A Move Toward Standardized Reporting

Walker¹

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The use of force by police officers remains an unfortunate reality of policing. This study gathered data from a sample of Canadian police services in an effort to determine how often force is applied, what type of force is employed, and what impact this has (in terms of effectiveness and injury, both to the subject and the officer). Results indicated that across jurisdictions in Canada, police officers rarely use force. Moreover, the rates at which officers apply force are unrelated to organizational factors such as the size of the policing jurisdiction or the gender demographics of the individual agency. Collectively, the results of this study suggest that the use of force by police is very much the result of the circumstances in which individual officers find themselves at the time the force is applied.

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Reducing Violence and Aggression in Police Officers

Harris

2017

The Wiley Handbook of Violence and Aggression

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Police organizations employ a variety of means to minimize aggression and violence in their officers, from recruitment and selection processes to on‐the‐job training and monitoring as well as policy development. This chapter touches upon all of these means through a consideration of US police departments but particularly focuses on the ways in which police agencies attempt to locate and intervene with officers who exhibit performance problems, particularly with regard to aggressive and violent behavior. While there exists a body of work around police misconduct regarding aggression and violence on the part of officers, there is much less knowledge around whether or not current intervention efforts are sufficient, so the chapter concludes with a discussion of future research efforts to help illuminate this issue.

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Who are the problem‐prone officers? An analysis of citizen complaints

Cited by 65 publications

References 10 publications

Complaining While Black: Racial Disparities in the Adjudication of Complaints against the Police

Complaining While Black: Racial Disparities in the Adjudication of Complaints against the Police

Rates of Use of Force by Police Officers in Canada: A Move Toward Standardized Reporting

Reducing Violence and Aggression in Police Officers

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