This article examines police officers' perceptions and tolerance of abuse of force. Data were collected from 3,230 sworn personnel in thirty American departments. Officers rated the seriousness of an excessive force violation, their support for discipline, and their willingness to report such miscon
Police Training and Excessive Force
โ Scribed by Pete Schauer
- Book ID
- 110714391
- Publisher
- Greenhaven Publishing LLC
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- Current Controversies
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781534502376
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
How rough is too rough? Rodney King is an unfamiliar name for those growing up today, but the ongoing conversation concerning police brutality is one they know all-too well. This collection deep-dives into police training procedure, what constitutes excessive force, and what happens when the community disagrees with the police and the justice system. Relevant topics covered in this balanced anthology include the 1992 L.A. riots and the 2014 outcry in Ferguson, MO, as well as the choking death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, NY.
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The vast majority of the law enforcement officers in this country perform their very difficult jobs with respect for their communities and in compliance with the law. Even so, there have been incidents in which this was not the case. Police brutality and misconduct has been under the microscope for