The new world of police accountability/
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| Language: | English |
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Los Angeles:
Sage,
2014
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Introduction:
- Introduction to the new police accountability:
- New police accountability at work: three examples:
- Meaning of the three examples
- Plan of this book
- Challenge of police accountability:
- Policing in America: images and reality
- Definition of police accountability:
- Accountability and police legitimacy
- Legitimacy and the new police accountability
- Strategies and tactics of the new police accountability:
- Use of force and critical incident policies
- External and internal review
- Framework for accountability: PTSR:
- Policy
- Training
- Supervision
- Review
- Basic themes in the new police accountability:
- Focus on organizational change
- Data collection and analysis
- Police departments as learning organizations
- From punishment to behavior change
- Role of federal pattern or practice investigations
- Challenge ahead
- Accomplishments and limits of traditional police reforms:
- Past police reform strategies:
- Police professionalization movement
- Shortcomings of professionalization
- Comment on accreditation of law enforcement agencies
- Judicial strategy: courts as an instrument of police reform
- Criminal prosecution of police officers
- Legislative strategy: external oversight of the police
- Conclusion: Lessons of the past
- Part 2: Elements Of The New Police Accountability:
- Critical incident policies:
- Holding officers accountable: controlling critical incidents
- Administrative rulemaking: basic accountability process
- Turning point: new deadly force policy in New York City, 1972
- Administrative rulemaking framework:
- Confine, structure, and check discretion
- Collateral aspects of rulemaking
- Critical incidents:
- Use of deadly force
- Less-lethal force
- De-escalation, disengagement
- Vehicle pursuits
- Foot pursuits
- Gender bias issues: domestic violence and sexual assaults
- Deployment of canines
- Responding to people with mental disorders
- Ensuring bias-free policing
- Additional critical incident issues:
- Failure to report incidents and incomplete reports
- Officers in critical incidents
- Ensuring consistency among policies
- Conclusion
- Citizen complaints and complaint investigation procedures:
- New paradigm of citizen complaints:
- Preliminary considerations
- Citizen complaints as a First Amendment right
- Basic principles for citizen complaint procedures
- Lack of national standards
- Citizen complaint process:
- Public information about the complaint process
- Information in all relevant languages
- Officer responsibility to provide information about the complaint process
- Multiple and convenient methods of filing complaints
- Issue of anonymous complaints
- Citizen inquiries, questions, and complaints
- Investigating complaints:
- Accepting and classifying complaints
- Issue of withdrawn complaints
- Police officer cooperation with investigations
- Departmental cooperation with citizen review agencies
- Interviews at convenient and comfortable locations
- Ensuring thorough and fair investigations
- Disposition of complaints
- Staffing and managing the complaint investigation process:
- Staffing and resources
- Investigation policy and procedure manual
- Training for investigators
- Special nature of citizen complaints against police officers
- Timely investigations
- Evaluating the complaint investigation process:
- Sustain rate as an invalid performance indicator
- Surveying complainants and officers
- Conclusion
- Early intervention systems:
- New approach to police accountability
- Background and development of an EIS:
- Becoming a best practice in policing
- Basic considerations of an EIS:
- Centerpiece of the new accountability
- Introducing an EIS
- Note on terminology
- Early intervention and the formal discipline system
- From punishment to behavior change
- EISs do not predict future behavior
- Components of an EIS:
- Performance indicators
- Identification and selection of officers
- Intervention
- Post-intervention monitoring
- Impacts of an EIS:
- Transforming the role of supervisors
- Changing the organizational culture
- EISs and other police reforms:
- EISs and problem-oriented policing
- EISs and COMPSTAT
- EISs and risk management
- Effectiveness of EISs:
- NIJ evaluation of three EISs
- Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's PPI system
- Longitudinal study with intriguing results
- Experiences and perceptions of police managers with an EIS
- Implementing and managing an EIS:
- Saga of TEAMS II in the Los Angeles Police Department
- Case of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department's PPI system
- Conclusion
- External and internal review:
- Review: Becoming a learning organization
- Police auditors as external review:
- Authority and structure
- Functions and activities:
- Auditing the complaint process
- Auditing police operations
- Policy review
- Community outreach
- Contributing to transparency
- Case study: New standard in openness on police discipline
- Case studies of police auditors in action:
- Special counsel to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
- LASD Office of Independent Review
- San Jose Independent Police Auditor
- Boise Ombudsman
- Recent blue-ribbon commissions
- Limits of external review
- Collaborative reform process: promising new initiative
- Conditions of success for external review
- New developments in internal review
- Conclusion
- Part 3: Contemporary Issues In Accountability:
- Risk management as an accountability strategy:
- What is risk management?
- Risk management, police liability, and accountability:
- Police officer use of force
- Vehicular pursuits
- Canine units (K-9 units)
- Police accountability after hours: managing off-duty conduct of officers
- Early intervention systems: tool in risk management for the police
- Prevalence of risk management in American policing
- Research on risk management in policing
- Barriers to the implementation of risk management
- Overcoming barriers to implementation: case of risk management in medicine
- Innovative risk management in medicine: Checklist
- Checklists and policing: could it work?
- Looking ahead: future of risk management in policing
- New technology and police accountability:
- Video recording devices used by the public
- Reporting police misconduct: is there an app for that?
- Video recording devices used by the police
- Police use of social media to inform the public
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- Future of technology and police accountability
- Police accountability and the economy:
- Economic conditions and police service
- Police accountability and the economy
- Part 4: Future Of Police Accountability:
- Future of police accountability:
- Quick look backwards
- State of police accountability today
- Progress in police accountability: what are "best practices"?
- Challenge of sustaining accountability reforms
- Index
- About the authors.