Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100334 total results. Showing results 43681 to 43700 «218121822183218421852186218721882189Next ›Last » Trust in the Police and the Militarisation of Law Enforcement in Latin America Modern civilian police in Latin America has transitioned from an authoritarian past to a violent present. This institutional trajectory has evolved in the shadow of recurrent attempts by elected civilians to bring the armed forces back to domestic politics for partisan or personal gains. Current militarisation of law enforcement is another exploitation of the traditional supremacy of the armed forces over the police, which could have important repercussions on citizen trust in the police. Survey data from 28,874 adults in 18 countries were analysed to identify patterns of trust in both the armed forces and the police and to assess the impact of public support for the militarisation of law enforcement on citizen trust in the police. Results suggest that although both the military and the police are in general moderately appreciated by the citizenry, when criminal violence and political instability strike, public trust in the two security institutions starts to move in opposite directions. Subregional differences notwithstanding, the arrival of armed forces as iron-fisted guardians preventing society’s descent into violent chaos amidst insecurity and chaos typically damages police legitimacy. Declining trust in the police and increasing public support for the militarisation of law enforcement feed a downward spiral in high-crime environments that further discredits the police. Political implications of this legitimacy crisis are discussed, and policy solutions are recommended. Policing and Society 9/5/2022 Research article Scathing report calls for RCMP to be overhauled in response to documented human rights violations of women CANADA: An alliance of organizations focused on women’s rights is calling for the federal government to establish an external review of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to address the force’s treatment of women. The Globe and Mail (Canada) - Registration at source 9/5/2022 News Campaign stands behind Calgary police as force faces controversy, criticism CANADA: As the Calgary Police Service deals with low morale and public criticism, a local group is urging the community to show support for officers. Calgary Herald (Canada) 9/5/2022 News ‘Last resort’: Police forces struggling to provide support for people in crisis CANADA: CALGARY - Pat and Irene Heffernan have relived their son’s death many times. Toronto Star (Canada) 9/5/2022 News Doing the right thing? value conflicts and community policing Research on police legitimacy and public confidence underlines the importance of the police demonstrating moral alignment with the communities they serve. However, less attention is given to conflict between values, either within communities or between communities and the police. This study explores value conflicts in community or neighbourhood policing from a perspective of political realism, which suggests that such conflicts are inevitable and can only be resolved in temporary and contingent ways. It does so through a case study of neighbourhood policing, seen through local ward panel meetings, in one London borough. In total, 33 semi-structured interviews with 43 participants were undertaken, and seven hours of observations. This paper identifies four value-based conflicts that emerged through the meetings, and shows how neighbourhood police officers were able to provisionally resolve them, thus supporting confidence and legitimacy. However, it also shows how austerity has put this capacity at risk, both operationally, and through a receding of confidence as an organisational priority, with potential long-term consequences for public confidence in the police. With global protests such as Black Lives Matters, and anti-lockdown demonstrations, underlining the importance of public confidence and legitimacy to police organisations across the world, this paper adds to the evidence on the capacity of community policing to support this, offers a new perspective to understand the role of values in policing, and discusses the policy implications. Policing and Society 9/5/2022 Research article RCMP finalizing details of body-worn camera rollout CANADA: This year, thousands of RCMP officers will begin their shifts by putting on body-worn cameras that will capture their interactions with the community. Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) 9/5/2022 News Ideology of perfectionism abounds but legislation alone cannot eliminate violence against women REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: On 12th January last a 23-year-old Irish primary school teacher Ashling Murphy was attacked and killed while jogging along the Grand Canal, near Tullamore, Co Offaly. The Irish Times (Republic of Ireland) 9/5/2022 Feature, Opinion Plans to disregard historic convictions of gay men have raised ‘range of complex issues’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Plans to disregard convictions relating to consensual sex between men which occurred before the offences of buggery and gross indecency were decriminalised in 1993 have raised “a range of complex issues”, a new report has revealed. The Journal (Republic of Ireland) 9/5/2022 News Does a culture of cover-up still exist within the gardaí? REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: In 2019, the DPP’s office closed a file involving an alleged assault by a garda sergeant on a man who was suspected of a crime. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 9/5/2022 Feature, Opinion Gangs, drugs and knife crime in London This is the third of a new series of bite-size videos looking at the presentations of the 2020 Society of Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) Virtual Conference. Susanne Knabe-Nicol, otherwise known as ‘The Police Science Dr’, summarises a presentation by Professor Tom Kirchmaier's talk on Gangs, Drugs and Knife Crime in London, still a very current topic. PolicingTV 9/5/2022 Analysis, Feature, Video From School Halls to Shopping Malls: Multilevel Predictors of Police Contact in and Out of School Objectives: Individual- and school-level factors associated with youth being stopped, searched, or arrested in school are identified. Correlates of community-based contact are also examined. Methods: Longitudinal student surveys and corresponding school-level data come from 21 middle and high schools in 6 districts in St. Louis County, Missouri. Multilevel multinomial logistic regression was used to assess factors related to a three-category dependent variable, distinguishing youth with: (1) no police contact, (2) in-school contact, and (3) out-of-school contact. Independent variables capture student-level demographics, behavior, experiences, and perceptions and school-level characteristics and practices. Results: Factors associated with in-school contact include substance use, peer associations, prior contact, and prior school sanctions. Odds of school-based contact also increase when youth are less aware of school rules and perceive greater disorder. Among school-level characteristics, only officers responding to school problems is significantly associated with in-school contact. Conclusions: There is some consistency in individual-level factors associated with police contact across locations, particularly related to prior sanctions, but findings highlight potential mechanisms that vary across contexts. This study also provides evidence that some schoolwide responses may contribute to youth’s likelihood of having police contact in school, but solutions should consider the fluidity of contact in schools and communities. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 9/5/2022 Research article Police Digital Summit: Achieving outcomes together Salesforce is pleased to be a principal supporter of the Police Digital Summit 2022. Please come and say hello to us on stand 1 where we will be pleased to walk you through our end-to-end capabilities to help Police Forces with their transformation plans. Policing Insight 9/5/2022 Advertisement, Feature How Institutional Contexts Shape Police-Adolescent Encounters. A Study of France and Germany In a French-German study including a large survey of adolescents in four cities, we analyze the interaction patterns during stops. Based on the respondents’ reports of their last experience of a police stop/encounter, we look at the likelihood that they assessed the interaction as respectful or disrespectful, conflictual or even violent, and how either the police officers’ or their own behaviour contributed to this outcome. The comparative design of the survey allows us to examine differences in the institutional patterns of use of force during stops of adolescents by the French and German police (where, when, against which groups). Using multilevel regression analyses, we compare the individual and spatial predictors of disrespectful or violent interactions, in particular with regard to ethnicity and urban segregation in the two countries. While discrimination in the selection of targets is found in France, it is not in Germany. In addition, interactions are much more frequently reported as disrespectful and violent by French compared to German adolescents. These results align with previous research showing that France has a more confrontational policing pattern of work, with more stops, more racial profiling and more tensions during stops. We contend that an institutional theory of policing (ITP) is needed to account for the repeatedly found differences in how much force is used and how it relates to the use of stops and their modalities across the two states. We propose that ITP is made of the ‘pillars of institutional order’ as a theoretical framework for explaining those differences in police practices. Policing and Society 9/5/2022 Research article Legitimacy and Cooperation With the Police: Examining Empirical Relationship Using Data From Africa In recent times, police legitimacy has received extensive scholarly attention among policing scholars. However, despite this attention, the controversy regarding key predicting factors of this concept is far from over. Thus, the debate about the relative predictive powers of the process-based indicators and instrumental variables is an unsettled issue. The current study analyzed comparative data from two African countries (South Africa and Sierra Leone) to test the argument that police effectiveness will have the greater influence on citizens’ assessment of the legitimacy of their local police department than will procedural justice. The study further examined the relationship between legitimacy and cooperation, as well as the direct and indirect effects of procedural justice and effectiveness on cooperation. Using Structural Equation Modeling, we found that procedural justice and effectiveness both predicted police legitimacy, but effectiveness had the greater influence. Also, legitimacy and procedural justice positively and directly predicted willingness to cooperate with the police. These observations have important policy implications for effective police practices in Africa. Policing and Society 9/5/2022 Research article The Inevitable Fallibility of Policing The title of this paper is taken from the final sentence of the book How People Judge Policing (Waddington et al. [2017]. How People Judge Policing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.) which, though it had four authors, was really the brainchild of the late Tank Waddington. The paper picks up the book’s final observation and seeks to develop it, examining the problematic core of policing, and using this as a basis for thinking more generally about issues of trust, legitimacy and reform. There now exists an increasing body of research which shows how the delivery of policing can influence perceived procedural justice, the popular legitimacy of the police, and a variety of public behaviours such as compliance with the law and co-operation with the police (Tyler, [2017] Procedural justice and policing: A rush to judgement? Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 13, 29–53.). Such work is having increased impact on debates around police conduct and legitimacy and is increasingly seen as central to police reform efforts in Anglo-American policing, and in some other jurisdictions. Though accepting the broad thrust of such research, as well as its importance, this paper suggests that there are dangers in over-reading the potential of procedural justice, not least in forgetting some crucial lessons from the history of police research. The argument here focuses on the inherent complexity of policing and the inevitability of error within it. The simple but often overlooked lesson is that controversy and dissent are the norm rather than the exception in policing, and that much dispute and disagreement rather than reflecting a failure of approach or procedure, derive from the nature of policing itself. Policing and Society 9/5/2022 Research article NCA Deputy Director General heads for defence sector A senior leader of the National Crime Agency is leaving the organisation to take up a new role. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/5/2022 News Durham launch proactive alcohol and drug abuse campaign "Ahead of the Arrest" is designed to see officers step in in a bid to prevent future criminal activity. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 9/5/2022 News 121 arrests in operation against migrant smuggling and human trafficking Operation Storm Makers busts criminal networks profiting from the movement of vulnerable men, women and children across borders. INTERPOL 9/5/2022 News Professor Nick Hardwick: ‘If you knew about this culture, why didn’t you do something about it? And if you didn’t know about it, why not?’ In a wide-ranging interview in the latest edition of ‘Talking Crime’, Policing TV’s Chief Presenter, Danny Shaw, spoke to Professor Hardwick about reforms to the parole system, building prisons, drugs policy, policing protests - and misconduct in the police service PolicingTV 9/5/2022 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video Professor Nick Hardwick: ‘If you knew about this culture, why didn’t you do something about it? And if you didn’t know about it, why not?’ In a wide-ranging interview in the latest edition of ‘Talking Crime’, Policing TV’s Chief Presenter, Danny Shaw, spoke to Professor Hardwick about reforms to the parole system, building prisons, drugs policy, policing protests - and misconduct in the police service PolicingTV - Subscription at source 9/5/2022 Feature, Interview, Opinion, Video «218121822183218421852186218721882189Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
