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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"lethal force"”.
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Judge, jury, and executioner: organizational factors that affect police use of lethal force
… factors as they relate to police use of lethal force. As a result of waning interest in macrolevel policing studies over the last three decades, the majority of our understanding of lethal force is derived from studies that specifically focus on microlevel factors (such as officer race or …
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Police Use of Force Databases: Sources of Bias in Lethal Force Data Collection
Understanding police use of lethal force requires the collection of reliable data. Due to bias present in police-use-of-lethal-force databases, researchers typically triangulate using multiple data sources to compensate for this bias; however, triangulation is restricted when the bias present in …
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Development of an Automated Body Camera Solution
… Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, many law enforcement officers have come under increased public scrutiny. This is due to the use of lethal force that many people find unjust and excessive. As a result, many officers have been required to wear body cameras in order to document the situations …
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A Reasonable Officer: Examining the Relationship between Stress, Training, and Performance in Use of Force Encounters
… performance of 122 officers during a realistic lethal force scenario to examine whether performance was affected by the officer's level of training, years of service, and stress reactivity. Results demonstrated that the scenario produced elevated heart rates, as well as perceptual and cognitive …
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From training to deployment: exploring the self-legitimacy of police firearms officers
… In keeping with this imperative, UK police forces elect not to routinely arm their officers. Instead, only a small number of specially selected and highly trained officers (Authorised Firearms Officers - AFOs) are permitted to carry and use firearms as part of their operational duties. These …
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Red power in the age of Nixon : an analysis of the official memory of Native protest.
… protests using physical violence and sometimes lethal force, and repeatedly ignored well-researched and widely supported legislative proposals of Native social leaders. This thesis explores the rhetorical tools that federal officials used to support the official narrative of a progressive and …
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Identification and Assessment of Adverse Occupational Health Risks Among Public Safety Personnel: A Biopsychosocial Investigation of Stress Biomarkers in Naturalistic Settings
… and urgent behavioural outcome among PSP — lethal force decision-making; findings revealed that dysregulated neuroendocrine function (when including outlier data) increased the odds of lethal force decision-making errors. Together, study 2 and 3’s findings demonstrated the strengths and …
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The Future Force and Insurgents: A Need For Balance in Force Transformation
Force Transformation is a continuing process to reform the U.S. Army into a smaller, more lethal force utilizing the latest technologies, resulting in the Future Force. The process would create vulnerabilities that would increase the number of unnecessary casualties, degrading their combat …
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Establishing a virtual manufacturing environment for military robots
… the military into a quicker, faster, and more lethal force is predicated on the rapid development of robotics technologies.2 Four out of the twelve vehicle systems being developed under the FCS program are unmanned vehicles requiring advanced robotics technologies. With this rapid pace of …
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Targeted killing of suspected terrorists
… killing by drones has become a common tool of lethal force in the "war on terrorism" in the past decade. Owing to the specific nature of targeted killing by drones and suspected terrorists, this method of warfare does not easily fall under one particular model of international law. The author …
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Towards mission-driven summarization for tactical networks
… army modernization priorities to build a more lethal force. Considering the increasing importance of information superiority, it is not surprising that the Army Network has been selected as one of the six modernization priorities. One of the main reasons behind this decision is that, in the …