A national study of sustained use of force complaints in law enforcement agencies

Pryor, Cori; Boman, John H.; Mowen, Thomas J.; McCamman, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2019.101623

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“…Such increases could lend support to those opposed to these policy changes. But Pryor and colleagues (2019) found more complaints of police brutality were filed in cities with CRBs because they establish a legitimate channel for making complaints. 8…”

Section: Community Response: Demanding Civilian Oversightmentioning

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Does Protest Against Police Violence Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1990 through 2019

Olzak

2021

Am Sociol Rev

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An underlying premise of democratic politics is that protest can be an effective form of civic engagement that shapes policy changes desired by marginalized groups. But it is not certain that this premise holds up under scrutiny. This article presents a three-part argument that protest (1) signals the salience of a movement’s focal issue and expands awareness that an issue is a social problem requiring a solution, (2) empowers residents in disadvantaged communities and raises a sense of community cohesion, which together (3) raise costs and exert pressure on elites to make concessions. The empirical analysis examines the likelihood that a city will establish a civilian review board (CRB). It then compares the effects of protest and CRB presence on counts of officer-involved fatalities by race and ethnicity. Two main hypotheses about the effect of protest are supported: cities with more protest against police brutality are significantly more likely to establish a CRB, and protest against police brutality reduces officer-involved fatalities for African American and Latino (but not for White) individuals. However, the establishment of CRBs does not reduce fatalities, as some have hoped. Nonetheless, mobilizing against police brutality matters, even in the absence of civilian review boards.

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Section: Community Response: Demanding Civilian Oversightmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Protest Against Police Violence Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1990 through 2019

Olzak

2021

Am Sociol Rev

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“…Overall, oversight via parliament, inquiries and consent decrees has largely avoided assessment or achieved only temporary gains in areas like systemic corruption (Chan and Dixon, 2007;MacDonald and Braga, 2019), resulting in limited impacts on police misbehaviour. The reaction to civilian bodies, meanwhile, has been positive, even if their impact has been limited (Pryor et al, 2019;Walker, 2016), their investigation standards questioned and their independence doubted (Hawthorne and White v. Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, [2020] NICA 33; Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), 2014; US Department of Justice, 2017; Worden et al, 2018). Overall, frustrations regarding civilian bodies' legislative powers, throughputs and outputs have resulted in them being frequently rebranded, abolished or concerns for their future being voiced (Torrible, 2021).…”

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Police oversight in Ireland: Who complains, who gains?

Moss

2022

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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Accounts of police complainants and their experiences of oversight largely reflect North American data. This article examines how complainants fare in Ireland, where police crisis and reform have repeatedly occurred since 2005. Quantitative analysis of the independent police oversight agency’s complaint processing highlights patterns in allegations submitted, complaint-handling mechanism applied, and outcomes realised. In doing so, this article draws attention to the experiences of Irish Travellers, the homeless and prisoners. Findings show that socially marginal complainants submitted more serious allegations, secured higher investigation designations but were less likely to have complaints substantiated. Overall, substantiation was below international levels and police investigations were more likely to substantiate complaints than was the oversight agency. Consequently, the article then considers the frequent theoretical characterisation of police oversight in term of ‘justice’ or ‘agency’, arguing for inclusion of ‘agency self-interest’ by the oversight body in future research.

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“…In addition, male, non-white, and young citizens seem to be more likely to submit the use of force complaints (e.g. Terrill and Ingram, 2015; Pryor et al. , 2019).…”

Section: Factors Related To the Code Of Silencementioning

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“…A subset of the literature explored the factors, such as characteristics of individual police officers or police agencies, related to the rates of citizen complaints (e.g. Cao and Huang, 2000;Pryor et al, 2019;Terrill and Ingram, 2015). However, as Olivos et al (2022), Terrill and Ingram (2015), and others have argued, studies rarely incorporate citizen-correlates of complaints.…”

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Exploring the factors related to citizens' willingness to report police misconduct

Ivković

Liu

Vinogradac

et al. 2022

PIJPSM

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PurposeThis study examines the effects of diffuse support for the police, specific support for the police, experience with the police, and demographic characteristics on citizens' own expressed willingness to report police misconduct. The authors surveyed immigrants from Croatia who now reside in Germany and Ireland to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the relative role these factors play in regard to immigrants' willingness to report misconduct in Croatia.Design/methodology/approachThe study, based on a survey of 358 Croatian immigrants to Germany and 226 Croatian immigrants to Ireland, utilizes multivariate logistic regression models that assess factors affecting the respondents' expressed willingness to report police misconduct in their homeland and their current countries of residence.FindingsThe authors' multivariate models reveal that diffuse support for the police (e.g. confidence in the police and perceptions of widespread police corruption) plays a strong and significant role in explaining the respondents' willingness to report misconduct in the authors' initial models. However, the direct effect of the diffuse support completely disappears in most of the models once scenario-specific police integrity measures (e.g. views of expected discipline severity and estimates whether police officers would report misconduct) are included as well. With the exception of age, other demographic characteristics and contact with the police were not systematically and significantly related to the respondents' willingness to report.Originality/valueThis is the first empirical study to provide an in-depth exploration of various factors associated with the citizens' willingness to report police misconduct.

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A national study of sustained use of force complaints in law enforcement agencies

Cited by 12 publications

References 46 publications

Does Protest Against Police Violence Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1990 through 2019

Does Protest Against Police Violence Matter? Evidence from U.S. Cities, 1990 through 2019

Police oversight in Ireland: Who complains, who gains?

Exploring the factors related to citizens' willingness to report police misconduct

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