Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 102247 total results. Showing results 51401 to 51420 «256725682569257025712572257325742575Next ›Last » Race and Support For Police Use of Force: Findings From the UK The use of force is arguably the defining feature of police. Yet this power is often controversial: a key node in the contest and debate that almost always swirls around police, with the question of race never far from such contestation. In this paper, we consider the influence of race in responses to use of force incidents among British-based samples. Using two text-based vignette experiments and one video study, our aims are threefold: (1) to explore the influence of suspect race in how people respond to police use of force; (2) to test the interaction between participant ethnicity and suspect race; and (3) to understand what attitudes and beliefs influence how people respond to police use of force. We found no effect of suspect race on how people judged police use of force. White participants were slightly more accepting of police use of force than black participants, but there was no interaction with suspect race. The strongest predictor of acceptance of police use of force was trust in police, and, controlling for other relevant predictors, racial prejudice was also a significant positive predictor of acceptance of use of force. To our knowledge this is the first study of its kind to be fielded in the UK. Policing and Society - Registration at source 24/10/2021 Research article Labour Weekend road toll rises to four NEW ZEALAND: Police are warning motorists to reduce risk factors on the road this Labour Weekend, and say they will be out in force cracking down on unsafe driving. RNZ (Radio New Zealand) 23/10/2021 News How is corona being perceived and described? The social impact of the virus on policing Ahead of next week’s London Policing College workshops on International Perspectives of Policing in the Pandemic – the last in a series of workshops ahead of the 3rd International Police Education Conference in November – Dr Megan O’Neill, Associate Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, and Professor Jonas Grutzpalk of the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration of North Rhine-Westphalia, discuss the importance of the way COVID-19 is perceived and described by police and public. Policing Insight - Subscription at source 23/10/2021 Feature ‘It hurts and it’s wrong’: family of Aboriginal woman shot dead by WA police officer speak out after acquittal AUSTRALIA: Supporters of JC say 30 years after the Aboriginal deaths in custody royal commission there is still ‘no equality’ The Guardian 23/10/2021 News Legal action looming for Canadian police fighting vaccination mandate CANADA: Police On Guard For Thee, a group started in December 2020 by two Ontario police officers, is spearheading the “call to action” to gather interest from law enforcement officers across Canada. Western Standard (Canada) 23/10/2021 News Hundreds of gardaí conferred as ‘human rights champions’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Over 550 Garda members and Garda staff across various ranks and grades have been conferred as 'human rights champions.' Limerick Live (Republic of Ireland) 23/10/2021 News Domestic abuse victims to be given more time to report to police Home Secretary Priti Patel is understood to have backed calls to change the law to give victims of domestic abuse more time to report a crime. Police Professional 23/10/2021 News SNP ministers accused of leaving 10,000 police short of body-worn cameras Ministers have been accused of hampering crime-fighting efforts by funding body-worn cameras for just a few of Scotland’s police officers. The Herald (Scotland) 23/10/2021 News ‘Keystone Cops’ failed Stephen Port’s first victim, parents tell inquest Father of Anthony Walgate says further murders could have been avoided if police had ‘done their jobs better’ The Guardian 23/10/2021 News Senior UK police officer backs pioneering synthetic heroin clinics Chief constable Richard Lewis says ‘fundamental change of approach’ needed to tackle drug deaths crisis The Guardian 23/10/2021 News As a chief constable, I’ve seen enough: it’s time to end the ‘war on drugs’ I know addicts can commit odious acts. But treating drug use as a criminal justice problem causes thousands of needless deaths The Guardian 23/10/2021 Feature, Opinion 164 drink and injection spiking incidents across UK in two months Nearly 200 drink and injection spiking incidents have been reported to police forces across the UK over the past two months. LBC 23/10/2021 News ‘We are coming for you’: Police seize shotguns, commit extra officers to curb gang war AUSTRALIA: Police have arrested an alleged high-ranking gang member and made 70 extra officers available for a crackdown on underworld conflict, pledging to intensify their targeting of organised crime networks following the fatal shooting of a father and son in Sydney’s west this week. Brisbane Times (Australia) 22/10/2021 News Queensland Police Service employees lose legal bid against mandatory COVID jab AUSTRALIA: A group of Queensland Police Service (QPS) employees' legal bid to defy their Commissioner's direction to be vaccinated for COVID19 has failed. ABC News (Australia) 22/10/2021 News Police officer who shot dead Indigenous woman on WA street found not guilty of murder AUSTRALIA: A police officer who shot dead an Indigenous woman carrying a knife on a suburban West Australian street has been acquitted of her murder. The Guardian 22/10/2021 News Police find drugs buried in underground storage pits NEW ZEALAND: Roughly nine kilograms of dried cannabis buried in underground storage pits were dug up by Waikato Police executing a search warrant at a rural Matamata property on Tuesday. NZ Herald (New Zealand) 22/10/2021 News Police do not know source of 82% of illegal firearms – COLFO NEW ZEALAND: Research has revealed that although Police claim that the source of illegal firearms is licensed firearm owners, it cannot find the source of 82% of the firearms it seizes - opening the possibility that they enter the country with drugs and other contraband. Voxy.co.nz 22/10/2021 News Operation Chestnut – seven arrests, $3.5 million in assets restrained NEW ZEALAND: Police have this week dismantled a sophisticated drug dealing and money laundering operation, making seven arrests and restraining assets worth $3.5 million in the process. New Zealand Police 22/10/2021 News “I’m Afraid of Cops:” Black Protesters’ and Residents’ Perceptions of Policing in the United States Proactive policing strategies produce a wide range of harms to African Americans. Research on attitudes towards police show that citizen distrust is more widespread among Blacks than Whites. However, we know less about how gender intersects with race and neighborhood context in determining whether and why Black people fear the police. Here, I build from the insights of previous research by providing a contextual examination of the gendered nature of fear of the police among Black protesters and residents of Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland. Drawing from a larger qualitative study of race, policing, and protests following Michael Brown’s and Freddie Gray’s deaths, I examine 155 Black men’s and women’s accounts of why they do or do not fear the police. Policy implications are discussed, along with concrete recommendations for reducing anti-Black racism in police policy and practice. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice - Registration at source 22/10/2021 Research article Too Much Policing: Why Calls Are Made to Defund the Police The repeat use of fatal force against unarmed people of color has driven global protests against police violence and fueled criticism of policing as a mechanism for public safety. In the US, calls to abolish, transform, or reform policing have reemerged with a primary focus on the elimination of structural racism. In this essay, we contend that a two-tier policing problem exists. The first is the continued use of policing to enforce racial dominance through policing practices labeled as “proactive”. The second is contemporary “warrior-style” police training that normalizes the expectation of unquestioned compliance with police directives and authorizes police to use physical force in its absence. This dangerous combination results in over-policing the public generally and Black members of the public specifically. Select incidents are provided to support these claims. Punishment and Society - Registration at source 22/10/2021 Research article «256725682569257025712572257325742575Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
