Police Sexual Misconduct

Stinson, Philip M; Liederbach, John; Brewer, Steven L.; Mathna, Brooke E.

doi:10.1177/0887403414526231

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“…A related endeavor has been undertaken by policing scholar Phillip Stinson, who developed a system for harvesting news reports of police officers who have been arrested. These data have enabled him to study such diverse topics as police sexual misconduct (Stinson, Liederbach, Brewer, & Mathna, 2014), drunk driving (Stinson, Liederbach, Brewer, & Todak, 2013), drug-related corruption (Stinson, Liederbach, Brewer, Schmalzried, et al, 2013), and most recently, violence (Stinson, Brewer, & Bridges, 2015).…”

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National Data on Citizen Complaints About Police Use of Force

Hickman

Poore

2015

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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National data on citizen complaints about police use of force were collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in 2003 and 2007. These data are a critical component of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) overall response to 42 USC 14142, which requires the Attorney General to “acquire data about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers.” The BJS data have the potential to help support democratic policing, provide baseline data on use of force for comparative statistical reporting and research purposes, and enable strong local checks on police abuses, provided their validity and reliability can be demonstrated. This study sought to assess the validity and reliability of the BJS data. Findings indicate that the BJS data suffer from serious measurement flaws, do not provide a valid and reliable basis for comparative statistical reporting and research purposes, and should not be relied on for purposes of litigation.

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National Data on Citizen Complaints About Police Use of Force

Hickman

Poore

2015

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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“…Research focused on police crimes associated with sexual misconduct identified 548 cases within a three-year window including 118 cases of rape, indicating that these sorts of heinous police crimes occur with some regularity within jurisdictions across the nation. This research also found victims to be inordinately young, mostly children (Stinson et al 2014a(Stinson et al , 2014c. Other studies within this line of research focus on the most egregious forms of sex-related crime labeled as police sexual violence, including rape, sodomy, and aggravated sexual assault.…”

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confidence: 66%

Racial Disparities in Police Crime Victimization

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Policing has become a topic of intense public scrutiny and protest in the aftermath of several recent highly questionable and violent police–citizen encounters including the acts of police violence against George Floyd in Minneapolis (MN), Breonna Taylor in Louisville (KY), and Jacob Blake in Kenosha (WI). These encounters have led to large-scale street protests, the legitimization of the Black Lives Matter movement, and what many commentators perceive as a “national reckoning” on the issue of racial justice. The focus of our research is on police crime—a particular form of police misconduct that involves the criminal arrest of police officers. Our work is designed to identify cases in which law enforcement officers have been arrested for any type of criminal offense(s). One area of police scholarship that has thus far been neglected is the relationship between citizen race and the perpetration of police crime. We are aware of no existing empirical studies on whether, and if so, to what degree, citizen race is associated with crimes committed by police officers. The public has been forced to re-examine and question the role and legitimacy of police against the backdrop of protests and concerns about how police may contribute to racial injustice and discrimination. The broadest research issue involved an examination of the association between police crime and the race of the victim. Our goal was to identify and examine any racial disparities of police crime overall and within specific types of police crime. The analyses compared police crimes committed against Black victims to all other police crimes identified within the dataset. More specifically, we examined the degree to which police crimes perpetrated against Black victims tend to be more violent than those perpetrated against non-Black victims. CHAID regression models were utilized to explore any multivariate relationships between race and police crime. Data were derived from published news articles using the Google News search engine and its Google Alerts email update service. Our database currently includes information on more than 18,700 cases of police crime from years 2005-2021. The study utilized data derived from this larger project. The study examined those cases of police crime in which we have identified a victim and recorded information on the race of the victim. The dataset for this study includes information on 865 criminal arrest cases of sworn nonfederal law enforcement officers within the United States from 2005 through 2014.

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“…Decision tree techniques have received attention due to their ability to handle interaction effects in data without being bound to statistical assumptions (Sonquist, 1970). Classification tree analysis has been used to examine police practices including career-ending police misconduct (Kane & White, 2013), police drug corruption arrests (Stinson et al, 2013), fatal and nonfatal incidents involving conductive energy devices (White & Ready, 2009), police sexual misconduct (Stinson, Brewer, Mathna, Liederbach, & Englebrecht, 2014; Stinson, Liederbach, Brewer, & Mathna, 2014), and police drunk driving (Stinson, Liederbach, Brewer, & Todak, 2014). This study utilized the Classification and Regression Trees (CART) decision tree predictive analytic algorithm.…”

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Federal Civil Rights Litigation Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 as a Correlate of Police Crime

Stinson

Brewer

2016

Criminal Justice Policy Review

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The Civil Rights Act of 1871 (codified at 42 U.S.C. §1983 and commonly referred to as Section 1983) provides a civil remedy for aggrieved persons to sue state actors who under the color of law violate federally protected rights. Since the 1960s, there has been an explosion of Section 1983 litigation in the federal courts against police officers and their employing municipal and county agencies. Due to a lack of official statistics and poor methodologies, research has yet to determine how common Section 1983 actions are against the police nationwide. This study examines the relationship between police crime and being named as a party defendant in a federal court Section 1983 civil action. Using a list of 5,545 nonfederal sworn law enforcement officers who were arrested for committing one or more crimes during the years 2005 to 2011, searches were conducted in the federal courts’ Public Access to Courts Electronic Records (PACER) system to locate Section 1983 actions against those officers. The authors found that 22% of all arrested officers were named as a party defendant in a Section 1983 federal court civil action at some point during their law enforcement careers. Additional findings address various predictors of a police officer being sued in a Section 1983 action.

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Police Sexual Misconduct

Cited by 34 publications

References 36 publications

National Data on Citizen Complaints About Police Use of Force

National Data on Citizen Complaints About Police Use of Force

Racial Disparities in Police Crime Victimization

Federal Civil Rights Litigation Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §1983 as a Correlate of Police Crime

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