Recently, there has been a push for policies that seek to increase police accountability. Two
of these policies, requiring independent investigations and prosecutions of police shootings …

Purpose This study aims to examine whether officers' perceptions of the probability of
suffering informal sanctions mediate the relationship between formal sanction threats and …

Over the past decade, police departments in many countries have experimented with and
increasingly adopted the use of police body-worn cameras (PBWCs). This article aims to …

PURPOSE: To explore the extent to which patterns of police misconduct, particularly
residual career length (RCL) and residual number of offenses (RNO), change over time in …

Police misconduct negatively impacts the legitimacy of local police departments and creates
tension between the public and police.[1, 2] This tension is heightened among racial and …

the formation of formal police departments, police misconduct and the abuse of police
powers has been a concern (Lundman, 1980). Unfortunately, police misconduct has often …

Police misconduct generally refers to procedural violations of departmental rules and
regulations, violations of state and federal law, and constitutional civil rights violations. As …

The majority of law enforcement agencies in the USA use pre-employment polygraph
screening as a pass/fail criterion for prospective applicants. However, the polygraph has a …

This paper explores the critical societal issue of police misconduct. Though a vast amount of
literature surrounds the issue of police misconduct, conclusions regarding the correlates of …

Quantitative analyses show that police stop and frisks are highly concentrated by
neighborhood. Interview and ethnographic studies show that police routinely share …