Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 96416 total results. Showing results 35341 to 35360 «176417651766176717681769177017711772Next ›Last » Police to drive down crime – and emissions – on electric trikes In a ‘world first’, Northamptonshire officers will patrol on ultra-lightweight, three-wheeled electric tricycles with a top speed of 95mph The Times - Subscription at source 7/9/2022 News Fatal police shooting: Met recognises ‘devastating and lasting impact’ on family The force has issued a statement acknowledging that Chris Kaba’s loved ones and the community want answers after he was shot dead. Express & Star 7/9/2022 News Chris Kaba: Met Police acknowledges ‘lasting impact’ of fatal shooting The Metropolitan Police has said it knows the family and community of a man shot dead by an officer "want answers". BBC 7/9/2022 News Tracking Procedural Justice in Processing Detainees: Coding Evidence from CCTV Cameras in Three Police Custody Suites Research question: How closely do custody suite encounters between detainees and custody suite officers (CSOs) match the procedural standards for decision makers treating people who are subject to their authority? To what degree does measurement of procedural justice displayed by CSOs on closed-circuit television (CCTV) records vary across detainees, CSOs and custody suites? Data: Arrest records for July, August, and September 2020 across three custody suites in the East of England were obtained and a random sample of 150 encounters selected for analysis. Methods: Encounters between CSOs and detainees at the booking-in stage as captured on pre-recorded CCTV were coded into four elements of procedural justice: voice, trustworthy motives, impartiality, and respect. Non-verbal communications and dialogue were also examined. Findings: Overall, custody suite officers demonstrated high levels of respect and neutrality in dealing with detainees. However, they showed relatively less care for the wellbeing of the detainees and did not offer them enough opportunities to ‘tell their side of the story’ (‘voice’). Further analysis revealed statistically significant variations across the three custody suites in the level of opportunities offered to detainees to have an input in discussing the decision-making. We also found evidence that as length of service as police officers and in custody roles increased, the observed level of expression of ‘trustworthy motives’ displayed decreased. Finally, detainee compliance with officers was greater when respect and care for the wellbeing of detainees were more pronounced. Conclusions: A tracking study can help identify police units and police officers with greater concentrations of procedural justice deficits. Such evidence can support more targeted training to improve the delivery of procedural justice, and enhance public confidence in policing. Cambridge Journal of Evidence-Based Policing 7/9/2022 Research article Officers found guilty of gross misconduct over retirement party incident. Three Gwent Police officers have been found guilty of gross misconduct three years after being accused of inappropriate behaviour at a retirement party for a former chief constable. Police Professional 7/9/2022 News Pioneering electric hybrid motorcycle for Northamptonshire Police. Northamptonshire Police is leading the way in sustainable transport for emergency service use as it takes delivery of new petrol-electric hybrid motorcycles. The new three-wheeled bikes will be used by neighbourhood policing teams, helping them to increase accessibility and visibility within local communities. Emergency Services Times 7/9/2022 News New Home Secretary appointed. New Home Secretary is experienced QC who has defended the Parole Board in challenges by prisoners. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 7/9/2022 News MPS recognises ‘devastating and lasting impact’ on family following fatal police shooting. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has expressed its condolences to the family and friends of a man who was shot dead by armed officers, saying it understands that “the family and community want answers”. Police Professional 7/9/2022 News Innovative ‘immersive’ training launched to improve safety in custody. The College of Policing has launched a new immersive training package for custody sergeants and detention officers that will increase skills and improve safety for those who are arrested. Police Professional 7/9/2022 News Dorset shows “clear commitment” to child protection, says HMIC. In April 2021, HMICFRS had made eight recommendations to the force regarding how they keep children safe. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 7/9/2022 News Evaluating implementation of the EPIC peer bystander intervention program in basic law enforcement training (BLET) Mandated by a consent decree, the Ethical Policing is Courageous (EPIC) program was developed by the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). The EPIC curriculum is based on active bystandership, encouraging officers to intervene when police misconduct could potentially occur. This research sought to evaluate the EPIC program recently adopted in one state. An adapted integrity measuring instrument from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) developed by Klockars et al. was used to compare officers who have recently completed the ethics programming being phased out against officers who participated in the EPIC program. Results indicate a significant difference in the areas of reporting and intervening with respect to excessive force. Implications for further research are also provided. Police Practice and Research 7/9/2022 Research article Disproportionately Punished, Yet Still Neglected: Variation in Official Police Responses to American Indian/Alaska Native Offending and Victimization Objectives: While a great deal of research has considered racial disparities in the criminal justice system, empirical research on the American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) population is still in its infancy. Instead, AIAN people are most often grouped in the “other race” category. In this research, we move beyond this categorization and advance research by considering differential handling of AIAN-involved violent crime. Methods: We use 2016 NIBRS data—including information on 5,740 AIAN victims and 6,591 AIAN suspects—to examine variation in the likelihood of clearance by arrest and variation in these patterns according to victim race, offender race, and offense type. Results: Results indicate that incidents involving AIAN suspects and White victims are especially likely to result in arrest, but incidents involving AIAN suspects and AIAN victims are less likely to result in arrest. AIAN sexual assault victimization is particularly unlikely to result in arrest. Conclusions: The AIAN population is both disproportionately arrested when suspected of crime, and disproportionately neglected when victimized. If we wish to better understand the role of race in the criminal justice, it is imperative that we move beyond simple Black-White dichotomies, and begin centering attention on other marginalized populations, including the AIAN population, as well. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 7/9/2022 Research article Turning a blind eye to image-based abuse As many as one in three people in Australia, New Zealand and the UK have experienced image-based abuse, yet fewer than half of those who witness it have intervened; research by Dr Asher Flynn of Monash University, Elena Cama of the University of New South Wales, and Dr Adrian Scott of Goldsmiths, University of London explores why people do or don’t intervene in such instances, and the vital role that bystander intervention programs could play in responding to image-based abuse. Policing Insight 7/9/2022 Analysis, Feature Who Believes that the Police Use Excessive Force? Centering Racism in Research on Perceptions of the Police Objectives: Police use of excessive—even fatal—force is a significant social issue, one at the symbolic heart of the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement. However, a substantial number of Americans—disproportionately White—tend to minimize the prevalence of this issue. We seek to explain differences in these views. Methods: We look at whether experiences with the police, politics, and three measures of racial attitudes explain differences in views of the prevalence of police use of excessive force, and we specifically test for whether these factors help explain racial stratification in these views. Using data from three different recent national surveys collected by the American National Election Studies, we attempt to replicate our findings within this paper. Results: Views of police use of force are highly stratified by race and politics and racial attitudes—in particular racial resentment—play an important role in explaining these differences. Conclusions: If we hope to address this important issue, it matters that many people minimize its existence, and it matters why they minimize it. We argue that centering race in crime and justice research necessarily means centering racism. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 7/9/2022 Research article Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Police and Prosecutorial Drug Charging: Analyzing Organizational Overlap in Charging Patterns at Arrest, Filing, and Conviction Objective: Explore racial-ethnic disparities in drug charging trajectories from arrest to conviction. Methods: We analyze racial-ethnic disparities in charging severity across arrest, filing, and conviction for felony drug offense cases in Miami-Dade County between 2010-2015 (N=25,559) using a “distance traveled” approach by estimating the severity of charges based on the probability of incarceration at conviction. We use these estimates to predict the severity of charges at arrest and filing, and examine differences in the severity of charges between stages. Results: Compared to White non-Latinx people, police charge Black Latinx people with drug crimes that are 1.8 times more severe and Black non-Latinx people with drug crimes that are 1.6 times more severe at arrest. These inequalities are maintained throughout the charging trajectory. Greater charge reductions occur between arrest and filing than between filing and conviction, highlighting the importance of police in charging trajectories. We find small increases in charging trajectory, where racial-ethnic disparities persist at conviction. Conclusions: Examining charging at arrest is critical to understanding racial-ethnic disparities in charging trajectories, where unequal arrest charges become institutionalized throughout the charging process. Organizational dynamics between police and prosecutors may lead to drug charging practices that systematically disadvantage Black people in Miami-Dade County. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 7/9/2022 Research article Looking guilty: Handcuffing suspects influences judgements of deception Veracity judgements are important in legal and investigative contexts. However, people are poor judges of deception, often relying on incorrect behavioural cues when these may reflect the situation more than the sender's internal state. We investigated one such situational factor relevant to forensic contexts: handcuffing suspects. Judges—police officers (n = 23) and laypersons (n = 83)—assessed recordings of suspects, providing truthful and deceptive responses in an interrogation setting where half were handcuffed. Handcuffing was predicted to undermine efforts to judge veracity by constraining suspects' gesticulation and by priming stereotypes of criminality. It was found that both laypersons and police officers were worse at detecting deception when judging handcuffed suspects compared to non-handcuffed suspects, while not affecting their judgement bias; police officers were also overconfident in their judgements. The findings suggest that handcuffing can negatively impact veracity judgements, highlighting the need for research on situational factors to better inform forensic practice. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling 7/9/2022 Research article Division between RCMP, municipal police grows since the N.S. mass shooting CANADA: Throughout the inquiry examining the 13-hour killing rampage that began in Portapique, N.S., on April 18, 2020, several senior police officers have testified about a division between the RCMP and municipal police forces in the province. Global News (Canada) 7/9/2022 News, Video Police tech students could leave Montreal for more attractive salaries CANADA: As Montreal police struggle to recruit and retain officers amid a labour shortage, one police college on the island says police services outside of Quebec are recruiting their graduates now more than ever. CTV News (Canada) 7/9/2022 News Yukon RCMP officer charged with using excessive force CANADA: An RCMP officer in Yukon has been accused of using excessive force when lodging a prisoner in police cells in Whitehorse. Blue Line (Canada) 7/9/2022 News Crime levels will not fall unless action is taken to increase our Garda force, according to local councillor REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: More Gardai are needed now to relieve the pressure currently facing the force in the Sligo/Leitrim division. [AUDIO] Midwest Radio (Republic of Ireland) 7/9/2022 News «176417651766176717681769177017711772Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
