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    for the study of excessive use of force will be of correctional officers with the most use of force as well as correctional officers that don’t have many uses of force. The proposed study would be of use of force reports as well as any other maintained records of correctional officers within the department. The use of forces reports to include records would be placed in categories to identify the officers that used excessive force then from officers that did not use excessive force in situations. These

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    Use of excessive force by police Name Institutional affiliation Introduction This paper will discuss issues related to the use of excessive force by the police. In doing this the paper will look at the concepts such as the need for police officers to use force, the definition of excessive force and causes that contribute to the use of excessive force. The paper identifies inadequate training, adrenalin overload, accidental application and retribution as the major causes of

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    Travis A. Greene Josh Lindsay CRJ-115-01 Piedmont Technical College April 24, 2017 Excessive Force or Noncompliance On July 17, 2014 history was made when Eric Garner, 43 years-old who died while in a headlock by a New York Police Department officer, and several other officers on his back for supposedly selling unlicensed cigarettes on a store-front. Mr. Garner was approached by a plain clothes officers, later identified as Officers Daniel Pantaleo and Justin Damico. The bystanders and store

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    Most people and researchers will agree that the use of excessive force by law enforcement causes a threat to the relationship between the police and the community they serve, but there are few who might argue differently. The few individuals who argue differently claim that our awareness of police brutality is on the rise because of more media coverage and more cellphones and cameras which captures the use of force by police by posting them on the internet. Others might argue police brutality is

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    are occurrences of police brutality, although the episodes of such brutality is minute in comparison to what is perceived to be the case by the general population. Police brutality is a perception of excessive force, though depending on the situation, that very force may in fact be the use of proper force. When it comes to Americans receiving their knowledge of current event, they usually refer to the media, in which a major topic today is police brutality. A Case Study Reference On March 3rd 1991

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    Brookings Police Department Accused of Using Excessive Force, Causing Injury Approximately 1 new personal injury lawsuit is filed every 2 seconds throughout the United States, and the third most common claims is assault-related. Based on statistics, there is a very high number of assault claims each year, and there were over 2 million of them in 2010 alone. Personal injury cases arise when a person suffers harm that is inflicted by someone else. It can be resolved through informal settlement, but

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    had been the individual targeted that moment. I was baffled. is there genuinely shared social a definition of acceptable force or are we, as a society, expected to leave it up to the police while they make the judgement? There is a fine line between barbaric action and communication, and it is this line that makes all the difference when it comes to the excessive use of force. My personal interest project, an in-depth discussion of the police institution , aims to explore the hypothesis as to

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    The use of excessive force by the police, particularly in the Unites States has been under much scrutiny and criticism. The implementation of police worn body cameras were introduced as a way to not only improve the safety of the police officers but most importantly to make them accountable for their own misconduct. The presence of a body cam worn by police either during an altercation or on duty, in theory should mean that there would be less of a likelihood of an officer committing any form of

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    police officer is to focus on protecting people and property. They are to patrol areas they are assigned, respond to calls, enforce laws, make arrests, issue citations and appear in court to testify. According to Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force by Jerome H. Skolnick and James J. Fyfe police officers like most professions go by unwritten rules and that every police department has written and unwritten guidelines. But the question is do they always follow them? Some officers abuse

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    Although excessive force rarely occurs, there are few instances where it does (Pollock, 2017). It has been found that “some studies do find an association between force and race or socioeconomic status, but other factors, such as demeanor, seem to be even more influential” (Pollock, 2017, p. 160). Situational characteristics that are likely to involve the use of excessive force include, “the number of citizens present (positive association), the number of police officers present (positive association)

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