Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 100734 total results. Showing results 70121 to 70140 «350335043505350635073508350935103511Next ›Last » Assessing Public Perceptions of Police Use-of-Force: Legal Reasonableness and Community Standards How do public expectations of police use-of-force align with the strict professional and legal guidelines under which police officers train and operate? This is a largely unexamined but salient question in the use-of-force literature and is important given the ongoing public discourse regarding police use-of-force, community standards, and perceived gaps between the two. This study focuses on two main research questions: Are substantial portions of the public predisposed to disapprove of legally reasonable police use-of-force? If so, what are the principal correlates of those disapproving attitudes? We analyze responses (n = 20,781) to General Social Survey (GSS) questions from 1990 through 2018 entailing police use-of-force scenarios that are prima facie legally reasonable. We find a substantial proportion of GSS respondents have expressed their disapproval of legally reasonable, justifiable police uses-of-force over the entire period, and such disapproval has increased over time. Causes and policy implications of this misalignment are discussed. Justice Quarterly - Registration at source 26/10/2019 Research article How Do Body-Worn Cameras Affect the Amount and Makeup of Police-Initiated Activities? A Randomized Controlled Trial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin From May 21 to November 22, 2016, patrol officers and sergeants from the Milwaukee Police Department were involved in a randomized controlled trial. Through a stratified random sampling procedure, half the officers (n = 252) were assigned BWCs, while officers from the control group (n = 252) continued business as usual. The counts of proactive activities, which included a total count of self-initiated events, as well as traffic stops, business checks, subject stops, and park and walks, were examined using random-effects negative binominal panel regression analyses. The models included a unique measure of contamination to assess its impact on officers’ proactivity. BWCs had no impact on the total amount of officer-initiated activities, traffic stops, or business checks. Officers with BWCs conducted approximately 8% fewer subject stops and 23% more park and walks than those in the control group. In all models, contamination levels were significantly, positively associated with the number of proactive activities that were conducted; however, the size of this effect was very small. Journal of Experimental Criminology 26/10/2019 Research article First responders struggle with PTSD caused by the emergencies, deaths, tragedies they face every day USA: Certain smells can put Ken Dillon in a dark hole. When Dillon, a Connecticut state trooper, smells pizza, for example, his mind rewinds to Dec. 14, 2012 — pizza Friday — at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 people, including 20 first-graders, were shot dead by a young man who then took his own life. The Washington Post 26/10/2019 Analysis, Feature Harry Dunn death: family launches three separate legal actions The family of Harry Dunn, the teenager killed in a motorcycle crash, are launching three separate legal actions against the Foreign Office, Northamptonshire police and Anne Sacoolas, the American wife of a US intelligence officer who has admitted to driving on the wrong side of the road before the collision. The Guardian 26/10/2019 News Judith Gillespie on the day she quit her place at Queen’s University and ignored the wishes of her parents to join the RUC She's a trailblazer and policy-maker who made history in 2009 when she was the first woman to be made Assistant Chief Constable and then later promoted to Deputy Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), becoming the highest-ranking female police officer in the force. Belfast Telegraph 26/10/2019 News Sandwell police team design book to deter local school children from crime A Sandwell police team has designed and written a book for year seven secondary school students in the area, to help them make sensible decisions and to deter them from crime. Birmingham Updates 26/10/2019 News Another reprieve for our dilapidated Victorian prisons Penal reformers have two major complaints about our prison system. Firstly, that we lock up far too many people (England and Wales imprison the second biggest proportion of its population in Western Europe, first place was recently ceded to the Scots). Police Oracle - Subscription at source 26/10/2019 News Assisted dying laws causing distress to officers, say 18 PCCs Pressure group for law change part of support for colleague who has motor neurone disease. Police Oracle - Subscription at source 26/10/2019 News Trafficked Vietnamese and the lure of UK nail bars and cannabis farms Anti-slavery groups have been warning for years of rise in young Vietnamese being smuggled into UK The Guardian 26/10/2019 Feature, Opinion Grenfell survivors fear inquiry judge will side with establishment Report on 2017 fire must be as hard-hitting as Stephen Lawrence report, say bereaved The Guardian 26/10/2019 Ex-poster girl for Metropolitan Police to face trial for ‘disclosing victims’ information’ A former poster girl for Scotland Yard is to face trial for disclosing information about victims. The Sun 26/10/2019 News Beyond 2020 In 2017, Norfolk Constabulary set out on a radical twin track approach to enforcement and early intervention. Police Professional examines how it has developed. Police Professional - Subscription at source 25/10/2019 Analysis, Feature Mapping Attitudes Towards the Police At Micro Places We examine satisfaction with the police at micro places using data from citizen surveys conducted in 2001, 2009 and 2014 in one city. We illustrate the utility of this approach by comparing micro- and meso-level aggregations of policing attitudes, as well as by predicting views about the police from crime data at micro places. In each survey, respondents provided the nearest intersection to their address. Using that geocoded survey data, we use inverse distance weighting to map a smooth surface of satisfaction with police over the entire city and compare the micro-level pattern of policing attitudes to survey data aggregated to the census tract. We also use spatial and multi-level regression models to estimate the effect of local violent crimes on attitudes towards police, controlling for other individual and neighborhood level characteristics. We demonstrate that there are no systematic biases for respondents refusing to answer the nearest intersection question. We show that hot spots of dissatisfaction with police do not conform to census tract boundaries, but rather align closely with hot spots of crime. Journal of Quantitative Criminology - Registration at source 25/10/2019 Research article Adults ‘ignorant’ over children’s access to drugs Most adults are "living in ignorance" about the accessibility of drugs to "very young children", the UK's four children's commissioners have said. BBC 25/10/2019 News Police missed ‘red flags’ prior to death of epileptic man Norfolk Constabulary missed a series of “red flags” leading up to the death of a man who drowned in a ditch shortly after being released from custody, according to the Independent Office for Police Complaints (IOPC). Police Professional 25/10/2019 News Trustworthy AI requires solid cyber security At the third annual ENISA-Europol Internet of Things (IoT) Security Conference, it was Artificial Intelligence (AI) that was the newcomer on the scene. The rise of AI technologies requires a new dialogue and awareness of the related cybersecurity challenges. Europol 25/10/2019 News British police spied on grieving black families for decades. Now we want the truth How many black families have been targeted by undercover police officers? This is the simple question we are still waiting for authorities to answer. The Guardian 25/10/2019 Feature, Opinion Duckenfield’s lack of emotion may be due to PTSD, Hillsborough jury told Jurors urged not to draw adverse inference against suspect for his lack of emotion The Guardian 25/10/2019 News IOPC admits death in custody case went on ‘far too long’ The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has admitted that ‘it has taken far too long’ to deal with a death in custody case involving four Devon and Cornwall police officers and two civilian detention officers Police Oracle - Subscription at source 25/10/2019 News Quick turnaround of counter-terrorism law could lead to unintended consequences – Amnesty International NEW ZEALAND: Amnesty International NZ are concerned the tight timeframe the Government wants to pass its counter-terrorism legislation could lead to unintended consequences - saying any laws that impact people's freedom needs a "thorough and robust process". 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