Media MonitorSUBSCRIBE 104588 total results. Showing results 13541 to 13560 «674675676677678679680681682Next ›Last » Police introduce changes to mental health callouts NEW ZEALAND: Wānaka police, along with their colleagues around the country, will not be attending as many mental health callouts in the future. NZ Police has introduced higher thresholds for mental health callouts, going only to those calls where there is an immediate risk to life and safety. There will instead be more health-led responses, with the changes phased in between November and September 2025. Otago Daily Times (New Zealand) 8/9/2024 News Struggle to find new deputy garda commissioner shows Drew Harris ‘has lost the room’ REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: A former senior garda says the struggle to fill the vacant deputy commissioner post is evidence that Garda Commissioner Drew Harris has ‘lost the room’. And retired chief superintendent John O’Brien told the Irish Mail on Sunday that the row over the pension entitlement of assistant commissioners is only ‘a part’ of the issue. He said the ‘subtext of all this’ is dissatisfaction with Drew Harris’s leadership. Extra.ie (Republic of Ireland) 8/9/2024 News Officials raise alarm after McKee makes rapid gun law change NEW ZEALAND: Former gun lobbyist Nicole McKee has used her power as a Government minister to reduce regulation for gun clubs — without any public consultation. Documents obtained by 1News show officials raised the alarm about a change to the Arms Regulations in May, saying they were being processed under a "short time frame". 1 News (New Zealand) 8/9/2024 News Point-to-point speed camera trial coming to NSW – as it happened AUSTRALIA: The speed of all drivers, not just truckies, will be tracked through average-speed camera zones in a NSW trial, AAP reports. But don’t expect a fine in the mail if you mess up in the early days. The Guardian 8/9/2024 News Police officer in ‘good spirits’ after allegedly being stabbed with scissors AUSTRALIA: A Queensland police officer is recovering in hospital after allegedly being stabbed during a domestic call-out. The officer was allegedly stabbed with scissors and a second suffered a dislocated shoulder after attending an incident in Roma, about 476km north-west of Brisbane, yesterday. 9 News (Australia) 8/9/2024 News The swollen blue line! Police lash out over ‘woke’ unisex uniforms that cops claim crushes male officers’ testicles Male police officers are complaining their ill-fitting trousers are so tight their manhoods are at risk of being crushed. The arresting uniform has been narrowly cut in such a way that there is barely room to swing a baton, they say. Mail Online 8/9/2024 News Police across US given new UFO handbook as they warn craft ‘pose significant safety risks’ USA: Police chiefs of America's largest cities have published the first guide about UAPs, which details chilling encounters and how officers can report such incidents. The 11-page document warned that unidentified flying objects 'pose significant safety risks to law enforcement air support units,' urging teams to be vigilant when in helicopters. Mail Online 7/9/2024 News Police watchdog sparks outrage with ‘leak inquiry’ into media release of shock CCTV footage showing vicious attack against officers at Manchester Airport The police watchdog provoked outrage last night after launching a 'leak inquiry' into the release of CCTV footage that showed a vicious attack against officers at Manchester Airport. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating whether any police officers were responsible for passing the shocking footage to the media. Mail Online 7/9/2024 News Gardaí contacted more than 160 times since historical abuse appeal launched REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Gardaí say they have been contacted more than 160 times in relation to allegations of historical abuse in the country's religious-run schools. Irish Examiner (Republic of Ireland) 7/9/2024 News Why Toronto’s police union could soon be in a ‘public relations war’ CANADA: Negotiations for a new Toronto Police Association contract have broken down, sending the city’s police board and the union representing rank-and-file officers to arbitration — and a probable “public relations war.” Announced in a union statement this week that heaped blame on both the mayor and the bargaining committee, the development comes after eight months of negotiation to renew a contract that expired last December — a 2019 agreement that saw officers offered a bigger raise than other city workers. Toronto Star (Canada) 7/9/2024 News “Video is only one little perspective”: Officer perceptions of body-worn cameras in a small community-oriented agency This paper examines officer perceptions of body-worn cameras (BWCs) through semi-structured in-depth interviews with officers across ranks in a small community-oriented police agency. Giving voice to officers in a small agency, this study broadens prior knowledge gained from big agency studies and deepens existing understanding of officer perceptions of BWCs beyond a binary classification (either support or resistance). This approach provides a useful angle for scholars to bridge some gaps in the current literature and informs practitioners on how to improve policies for better utilization of BWCs in daily policing operations. The Police Journal: Theory Practice and Principles - Subscription at source 7/9/2024 Research article How practical is tactical? Political sociology, militarization, and police tactical teams in Canada Emergency Response Teams (ERT), commonly referred to as Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) teams, are the specialized police unit responsible for mitigating violent and dangerous conflict beyond the capacity of general duty to handle effectively. Debates surrounding the application and effectiveness of ERTs in policing highlight a need to keep ERT members safe due to adequacy and occupational health and safety standards while concurrently managing the expectations of community groups. These groups include those calling for defunding or de-militarization. Explored in the current article, is a thematic analysis of popularized media to unpack the arguments that police, government officials and community activist groups make to help shift opinions on police militarization. However, we frame these media account within Bourdieusian concepts of symbolic power, habitus or field struggle to provide insight into, arguably conflicting, interpretations of police militarization. The Police Journal: Theory Practice and Principles 7/9/2024 Research article Understanding the role of street network configurations in the placement of illegitimately operating facilities The role of street networks in shaping the spatial distribution of crime has become a foundational component within environmental criminology. Most studies, however, have focused on opportunistic crime types, such as property offenses. In this study, we instead research a theoretically distinct phenomenon by examining the placement of venues that host criminal activity. In particular, we study the relationship between network structure and the placement of illicit massage businesses, which operate on the intersections of illicit and legitimate activity by hosting illicit commercial sex under the guise of legitimate massage. We model their placement as a function of two network metrics: betweenness, which measures a street's usage potential, and a variant called “local betweenness,” which measures the potential of nearby streets. Multilevel models are used to examine the importance of these street-level metrics while accounting for tract-level covariates. Our findings demonstrate that, unlike property crimes, illicit massage businesses tend to be located on streets that are themselves quiet but that are close to areas of high activity. Such locations seem to combine accessibility and discretion, and therefore, represent ideal conditions for such businesses to thrive. Our findings can inform problem-oriented approaches to prevent the harms associated with illegitimately operating businesses. Criminology 7/9/2024 Research article Reactive guardianship: Who intervenes? How? And why? Guardianship is a core tenet of routine activity theory and collective efficacy. At its outset, routine activity research assumed that the mere presence of a guardian was sufficient to disrupt many forms of crime. More recent research, however, has taken as a starting point that would-be-guardians must take on an active role for a reduction in crime to occur. Integrating research on bystander intervention and guardianship-in-action, the current study elaborates the individual-level motivations and decision processes of guardianship to answer the following questions: Who serves as a reactive guardian? How do they do so? And why? We tasked young adults (N = 1,032) included in the recent waves of the Zurich Project on the Social Development from Childhood to Adulthood (z-proso) to assess a 70-second video depicting a sexual harassment event. We examined participants’ willingness to engage in a range of intervention options as a function of their prosocial attitudes, safety considerations, socioemotional motivations, and moral considerations. Results show a complex decision process leading to whether and how a would-be guardian decides to intervene to disrupt sexual harassment, such that prosocial motivations and emotional reactions are weighed against perceptions of danger when deciding on a specific course of action. Criminology 7/9/2024 Research article Community representation and policing: Effects on Black civilians Does increased representation of Black individuals in the police force lead to less aggressive policing of Black individuals? The current study uses a Chicago panel data set with monthly police unit observations between 2013 and 2015 to understand 1) how police units’ representation of Black individuals affects the number of stops of Black residents and 2) how individual police officers patrol differently depending on the racial/ethnic background of co-working officers. Using fixed-effects negative binomial regression, we found that increasing racial congruence between police officers and the community being patrolled was associated over time with fewer stops of Black residents. Individual analyses showed that Black (vs. White) officers stopped fewer Black civilians, with larger effects in police units with higher percentages of Black officers, indicating a unit group effect. Furthermore, as the number of Black officer co-workers in a shift increased, Black civilian stops declined for all officers, including White officers, which is consistent with active representation. These findings indicate that a more diverse and representative police force can reduce aggressive policing of minority communities by mitigating group threat and cultivating positive cross-racial exchanges within police organizations and smaller peer groups. Criminology 7/9/2024 Research article Understanding community hate crimes as an incorrigible proposition: Local political attitudes, path dependence, and the ceremonious reporting of hate crime statistics The Hate Crime Statistics Act (HCSA) of 1990 requires the federal government to publicly release official hate crime statistics annually; the HCSA does not, however, mandate that local agencies submit hate crime reports to the government in the first place. Although research has evaluated the reporting of hate crime statistics in a dichotomous fashion (compliance vs. noncompliance), the current study suggests that the consistent and invariable reporting of zero hate crimes in a particular jurisdiction over time is unlikely and thus better conceptualized as a third response strategy: ceremonious compliance. We examine this strategy as a potentially unique institutional behavior, structured by local political and historical contexts, including discursive differences in the identification of hate crime as an important social problem, and localized histories of racial oppression. This research then uses multilevel multinomial logistic regression models to estimate variation in the likelihood of differential compliance strategies (i.e., true compliance, ceremonious compliance, noncompliance), according to several political and historical factors, including Republican vote share, location in the Confederate South, and historical lynchings. Findings reveal that political and historical contexts are important predictors of agency responses to hate crime, with a particular tendency toward ceremonious compliance in Republican-leaning locales. Criminology 7/9/2024 Research article Rate-my-cell police survey for criminals ‘beggars belief’ Officers told they must obtain mobile numbers for people in custody so they can answer Tripadvisor-style questions. Police Scotland have been criticised over plans to introduce a Tripadvisor-style survey for criminals to rate their experience in custody. The plans were confirmed via a post on the force’s intranet, which said that the “custody user experience survey” will be sent out by text message to “persons who have been within the custody environment”. The Times - Subscription at source 7/9/2024 News The unintended consequences of improving police recording of rape in England and Wales A strong focus in recent policy and media coverage has been the increase in reporting of rape coupled with an associated fall in the charge rate, often attributed to victim withdrawal. Drawing on an analysis of 741 police case files as part of Operation Soteria we question each of these positions. We argue that changes to the Home Office Counting Rules since 2014 have resulted in the recording of a significant proportion of cases which are not reports from victim-survivors and which they did not consent to. Closing such cases at outcomes which make victim-survivors responsible is both inaccurate and leads to misperceptions of where the problems lie in rape investigations. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice 7/9/2024 Research article PSNI LGBT+ Network row: Police Federation chair says staff groups ‘need to play by same rules everyone else does’ The PSNI’s LGBT+ Network recognises that they “potentially overstepped the mark” over an offer of support that excluded straight officers, the Chair of the Police Federation says. Northern Ireland World 7/9/2024 News Youth justice advocates condemn NT government proposal to reverse ban on using spit hoods on children AUSTRALIA: Youth justice advocates are warning the new NT government's plans to reintroduce spit hoods in youth detention will put more children at risk of harm. It follows a growing national campaign to end the use of the controversial devices, which has led to other jurisdictions clamping down on the practice. ABC News (Australia) 7/9/2024 News «674675676677678679680681682Next ›Last » Upcoming events View all events
