Criminal Justice: Police Misconduct

Addresses critical components of investigations dealing with officer-involved shootings.. It covers: estate, community, judicial, agency, involved officer, and public policy interests.

Presents readers with timely, in-depth coverage of the use of force, deadly force, non-lethal weapons, militarization of policing, racism and profiling, legal cases, psychology, perception and training, and violence prevention.

Surveys the history of racism and persistence of structural inequality, arguing that recent struggles against police violence hold the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.

A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it

Considers the rules of behavior in actual armed conflic tas well as police conduct in those forms of conflict that fall below the armed conflict threshold.

Online video can bypass police jurisdictional influence over traditional mass media and may be affecting police-civilian interactions in American public space as the initial cusp of a paradigm shift.

Details how government agents routinely circumvent individual constitutional rights that are intended to protect us from the vagaries of the criminal justice system.

Kargin examines police officers' decision making with regard to peer reporting of unethical police behavior.

Explains how Online video can bypass police jurisdictional influence over traditional mass media and may be affecting police-civilian interactions in American public space as the initial cusp of a paradigm shift.

Includes the history of ACLU's fight against police misconduct as well as links to a community action manual and tips on what to do if you are stopped by police.

Includes public opinion poll results from both 2014 and 1968 comparing opinions of blacks and whites on police brutality, accountability, and training.

Copwatch groups are local organizations that observe and document police in order to hold the police accountable in cases of police misconduct or brutality. The first Copwatch was formed in Berkeley, CA

Includes information on police misconduct legislation, federal criminal enforcement and how to file a complaint.

A community mobilization toolkit working toward police reform.

The National Police Accountability Project (NPAP) is a non-profit membership organization of plaintiff's lawyers, law students and legal workers dedicated to ending law enforcement and detention officer abuse of authority through coordinated legal action, public education, and support for grassroots and victims' organizations combating misconduct. Includes links to attorneys, research papers, news and other resources.

Includes statistics and results from the Police-Public Contact Survey, the Arrest-Related Deaths Program, ant the FBI's Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted database.

The Cato Institue nalyzes media reports each day to locate news stories of police misconduct, records those reports in a database, and then transmits details about each report in a news feed. Our objective is to identify policies that consistently uphold high standards of ethics, honesty, and professionalism from police officers and allow poicymakers to consider proposals that minimize wrongdoing.

This database includes journal articles, newspaper articles, primary sources, and editorials representing different perspectives on police brutality.