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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"police misconduct"”.
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Handling police misconduct in an ethical way
Police misconduct has always been a serious problem in America. Historically, reform efforts have failed due to an organizational culture that is resistant to change. Past reforms have been aimed at individual incidents, disregarding underlying organizational problems. Improving public perception …
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A Case Study on Police Misconduct in the United States of America and an Applicable Model for the Turkish National Police.
… causes and deterrent control mechanisms of police misconduct in the United States. Outcomes of causes and control mechanisms constitute the basis for an applicable model for the Turkish National Police (TNP). Why is some police behavior deviate? What are the main determinants of police …
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A Comparative Study of Confession Law: The Lesson for Thailand Regarding the Exclusionary Rule and Confession Admissibility Standard
… Thailand needs to study the actual causes of police misconduct and implement the right tools to enhance police performance, such as professional training, and reform of the police force in other dimensions. Finally, Thailand should adopt more flexible rules of evidence, and adopt the proposed …
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Police Corruption and Misconduct from a Police Officer Perspective:from Identification to Discipline and Prevention
Police officers possess differing opinions about forms of police misconduct and the best ways to discipline police officers who are corrupt. Some law enforcement officials believe that with the large amounts of discretionary power they are given, they are above the law. Through a secondary analysis …
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Pacifying the Visual: Police Reform and the Promise of Body Worn Cameras
… long used to ensure the continuation of specific police practices and the police institution itself. Promising increased transparency and accountability and hence legitimacy, Body Worn Cameras (BWC) purport to show the facts of police work and critical incidents precisely as they happened. …
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Essays on Law Enforcement Misconduct and Social Network Analysis
… of, causes of, and responses to law enforcement misconduct. It comprises four essays, connected by their common focus on the social organisation of law enforcement as a lens to understand misconduct. The first essay disentangles how common understandings about the networked structure of police …
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"What if We're on the Wrong Side?": Police Brutality, Protest, and Player Culpability in Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human
… these two narratives are steeped in themes of police brutality, systemic racism, and protest, the way a player shapes a story does not exist in a relatively “moral-free” vacuum. Rather, the legal and social precedents that are often used to absolve police misconduct of blame by indicating an …
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The thick blue wall: a socio-historical analysis of police accountability in the Republic of Ireland
The powers afforded to public police in liberal democratic societies to perform their functions of investigating crime and maintaining social order, inherently raise tensions concerning the use of those powers, conflicts with the liberty of citizens, and accountability for these powers. 1n the …
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The Democratic Kaleidoscope in the United States: Vanquishing Structural Racism in the U.S. Federal Government
… and related state violence through acts of police misconduct that engulfed the country in the summer of 1967. I rely heavily on the report and background research itself, as well as major books related to race riots and presidential commissions, such as Anthony Platt's 1971 The Politics of …
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Zapped: A Typology Of Use And Misuse Of The Taser
<p>Police use of TASER force is currently a hot topic of controversy in the intersections of society and the criminal justice system. Proponents, including manufacturers and law enforcement, value the TASER as a less than lethal alternative to deadly force; providing increased safety for officers …
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Whistleblowing and Moral Dilemmas in Policing: An Analysis of Police Culture and the 'Blue Code of Silence'
This thesis explores police officers’ moral experience with the ‘blue code of silence’ and whistleblowing relating to corruption, misconduct and abuses of civilians. The interview responses of five (5) Canadian police officers is presented and examined using a meta-analytical approach of symbolic …
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A distinctive organizational control practice: Geographic personnel rotation
… standards and objectives. The Turkish National Police (TNP) rotates and transfers police officers geographically while providing security services throughout the country. Geographic personnel rotation (GPR) is a human resource management policy of the TNP which bans home city deployment and …
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Examining Student Perceptions: Ethics and Misconduct in Today's Police Department
<p>Police ethics and decision making are issues of concern to both academic scholars and police leaders. While previous studies have focused on perceptions of police officers, little research has focused on the perceptions of young people about police ethical decision-making. This study aims to …