Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 94174 total results. Showing results 57241 to 57260 «285928602861286228632864286528662867Next ›Last » Minneapolis City Council unanimously votes to ABOLISH its police department and replace it with a community-led public safety system The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously passed a resolution to replace the city's police department with a community-led public safety system. Mail Online 12/6/2020 News Police chiefs have unwisely emboldened the mob What on earth are the police doing in their response to the recent spate of mob violence and vandalism? I don’t mean the rank and file officers particularly, rather the commanders who issue their orders. Time and again in recent days they have succeeded in sending out messages that undermine rather than reinforce public order. The Times 12/6/2020 Feature, Opinion The city that really did abolish the police And rebuilt the department from the ground up. The strange, hopeful, politically complicated story of Camden, N.J. Politico 12/6/2020 Feature Machine Learning For Policing: A Case Study on Arrests in Chile Police agencies expend considerable effort to anticipate future incidences of criminal behaviour. Since a large proportion of crimes are committed by a small group of individuals, preventive measures are often targeted on prolific offenders. There is a long-standing expectation that new technologies can improve the accurate identification of crime patterns. Here, we explore big data technology and design a machine learning algorithm for forecasting repeated arrests. The forecasts are based on administrative data provided by the national Chilean police agencies, including a history of arrests in Santiago de Chile and personal metadata such as gender and age. Excellent algorithmic performance was achieved with various supervised machine learning techniques. Still, there are many challenges regarding the design of the mathematical model, and its eventual incorporation into predictive policing will depend upon better insights into the effectiveness and ethics of preemptive strategies. Policing and Society - Registration at source 12/6/2020 Research article Police Leadership As A Professional Practice In this paper, we ascertain whether a practice-based approach can increase our knowledge of police leadership. This approach represents an alternative to normative management models which have dominated the management literature. The normative approach often focuses on how police leaders must lead as well as on the traits and skills of police leaders. In contrast, our focus is on what leaders do and why and, therefore, what constitutes their professional leadership practices. We conducted qualitative explorative studies with Norwegian police leaders in 2016 and 2018. Our data were collected through the following means: a one-day shadowing of 27 police leaders, six weeks of fieldwork, 63 formal interviews of police leaders and a substantial number of informal conversations with police leaders and subordinates. In our analysis of leadership as practice, we recognise the importance of structural, cultural and contextual conditions as well as the emergent and dynamic nature of leadership practices. We identified four important practice dynamics: producing, relating, interpreting/sensemaking and negotiating. These practice dynamics were concerned with the relationships between leader(s) and employees, often characterised by the following. ‘Taking care of each other’ and ‘us against them’ within a leadership practice. Interpretations and sensemaking of the ‘reality’ within practices and production of policing as collective achievements. The language, symbols; artefacts, the police mission in relation to how it belongs/identifies with the practice and the negotiations of police leaders ‘fighting’ for resources (silos). And the continuously creation of manoeuvring spaces in what constitute police leaderś professional practice. Policing and Society - Registration at source 12/6/2020 Research article HSE issues safety alert around KN95 masks The statement on their site reads: “A substantial number of face masks, claiming to be of KN95 standards, provide an inadequate level of protection and are likely to be poor quality products accompanied by fake or fraudulent paperwork. These face masks may also be known as filtering facepiece respirators.” Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 12/6/2020 News Microsoft Bans Facial Recognition Sales To Police Software giant follows IBM and Amazon with police facial recognition ban until there is national regulation of the technology Silicon UK 12/6/2020 News UK: review into police use of Tasers against BAME people welcomed Responding to reports that the police are to commission independent research into the disproportionate use of Tasers against people from black and ethnic minorities by police forces in the UK, Oliver Feeley-Sprague, Amnesty International UK’s policing expert and a member of the independent advisory group to the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead on Tasers, said: “For years we’ve been calling for a formal review of the guidance around all aspects of the police’s use of Tasers, so this is a welcome move. Amnesty International 12/6/2020 News Police Abolitionists Aren’t ‘Too Radical’ – They’ve Been Making Gains for Decades Since the uprisings began in Minneapolis after the police killing of George Floyd, there’s been a new spotlight on a demand that has deep roots but is nevertheless new to many people watching around the world. NovaraMedia 12/6/2020 Feature, Opinion French police dump handcuffs in protest to rebuff critics Angry police across France have thrown their handcuffs on the ground as they feel "insulted" by claims that they tolerate brutality and racism. BBC 12/6/2020 News Knee Deep – Chicago police union boss warns cops will be kicked out for kneeling with George Floyd protesters THE union boss of Chicago’s police officers has warned any cops who kneel alongside protesters will be kicked out. The Sun 12/6/2020 News Family of black man who died in police custody in Devon call for answers Simeon Francis was found unresponsive in custody suite of Torquay police station The Guardian 12/6/2020 News Women Police Leaders in Europe: A Tale of Prejudice and Patronage This article provides rich and unique insights into the experiences of women police leaders across seven European regions. Drawing on interview data, it presents accounts of women’s experiences in policing and identifies informal and formal barriers to their advancement in European police organizations. Women police leaders report high levels of gender discrimination, obstruction and prejudice over the course of their careers. We argue that there are a number of subjective and informal criteria of ‘acceptability’ that shape women’s experiences of promotion and that informal patronage is a strong basis from which strategic appointments are made within European police systems. The article makes sense of the ways in which informal aspects of career progression function alongside formal promotion criteria to preserve men as the ‘ideal’ candidates for police leadership positions, resulting in a preference for other men and the exclusion of women. The relevance of these findings is key to informing the future selection and development of police leaders in an increasingly complex police landscape. European Journal of Criminology - Registration at source 12/6/2020 Research article The Homicide Drop in England and Wales 2004–2014 After decades of rising homicide rates in the late 20th century, much of the Western world witnessed a decline in homicide from the early-mid-1990s. In England and Wales, homicide rates defied this trend and continued to rise for a further decade, peaking in 2004 before declining year on year until 2014. The late onset of the decline in England and Wales presents a quandary for dominant explanations of the broader decline, and has yet to be theorised. This article presents a disaggregated analysis of the homicide drop in England and Wales, identifying subtypes of homicide that appear to have driven the decline. The findings indicate changes in lifestyle, routine activities and social/criminal justice policy as the main drivers of the homicide drop, and contribute to international theory on homicide trends. Criminology and Criminal Justice - Registration at source 12/6/2020 Research article Assessing the Capability of A Co-Responding Police-Mental Health Program to Connect Emotionally Disturbed People With Community Resources and Decrease Police Use-of-Force The objective of the study is to assess the capability of a mobile crisis intervention team (MCIT) to connect emotionally disturbed people (EDP) with community resources and decrease police use-of-force. In order to have equivalent groups, interventions managed by the MCIT were matched to incidents handled by traditional police officers with similar propensity scores. Average treatment effects (ATEs) were computed to assess the impact of the MCIT. The MCIT was associated with decreases in police use-of-force (ATE = − 0.08; p ≤ 0.01), EDP transported to the hospital against their will (ATE = − 0.06; p ≤ 0.10), and EDP transported to the hospital in general (ATE = − 0.42; p ≤ 0.01). EDP were more likely to be referred to community resources (ATE = 0.19; p ≤ 0.01) or managed by their social network (ATE = 0.22; p ≤ 0.01) when the MCIT was involved in the intervention. The MCIT was effective in connecting EDP with community resources, avoiding unnecessary transports to the hospital, and reducing police use-of-force. Journal of Experimental Criminology - Registration at source 12/6/2020 Research article Race and Police Killings: Examining the Links Between Racial Threat and Police Shootings of Black Americans This study empirically examines recent race-specific police shootings and offers a theoretical test of racial threat arguments. Our analysis includes all aspects of threat – economic, political, and racial composition – when examining state-level counts of police shootings of Black citizens spanning 2014–2016. For comparison, police shootings of Whites were also analyzed. Significant findings for racial composition are reported across both races, while political predictors are significant in the Black-specific model when controlling for other structural features. Our results also highlight the need to disaggregate police shootings by race. With partial support for racial threat arguments, we offer directions for future research. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice - Registration at source 12/6/2020 Research article Cooperative Actors in Domestic Abuse and Their Association With Prosecution: Implications For the Criminal Justice System Suggestions to increase prosecution rates in domestic abuse cases often focus on improving victim cooperation and evidence gathering. This study explores the impact of persons involved in abuse investigations by modelling five variables (victim cooperation; witness cooperation; presence of children; suspect admission; and presence of physical evidence) across 540 cases of domestic abuse. The presence of physical evidence, as well as victim and witness cooperation, all increased the likelihood of a charge against the suspect. However, suspect confession often resulted in a police caution, meaning no successful charge. The implications of these findings to improve investigation and prosecution are discussed. Police Journal - Registration at source 12/6/2020 Research article Nine years behind bars for woman who sent abuse pictures to her lover A married woman who sexually abused a child and sent the images of it to her lover has been jailed for nine years, after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation. National Crime Agency (NCA) 12/6/2020 News Low Self-Control and Legal Cynicism Among At-Risk Youth: An Investigation Into Direct and Vicarious Police Contact This study explores the nexus between low self-control and legal cynicism among a recent sample of at-risk youth while accounting for various features of direct and vicarious police stops. Analyses are based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which employs a national sample of urban-born, at-risk youth. A uniquely potent association between low self-control and legal cynicism emerged across samples with and without exposure to vicarious or direct police stops. Furthermore, among youth exposed to police stops, the link between low self-control and legal cynicism was largely robust to perceptions/features of these stops, including the degree of officer intrusiveness, arrest, perceptions of procedural justice, and youth feelings of social stigma following the stop. Programmatic efforts that both enhance the early development of self-control through mindfulness and curriculum-based interventions (e.g., Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies) and facilitate trauma-informed policing may be beneficial in curtailing the development of legal cynicism. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency - Registration at source 12/6/2020 Research article Violent protesters could fast-tracked to jail within 24 hours Violent protesters could be jailed within 24 hours under new fast-track court plans in response to Black Lives Matter (BLM) and far-right demonstrations expected this weekend. 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