Police Brutality and Excessive Force

Bandes, S. A. (2022). From Dragnet to Brooklyn 99: How cop shows excuse, exalt and erase police brutality.

The article discusses how cop shows originated as a form of “propaganda” to transform the image of law enforcement into more positive and heroic figures.

Singh, D. (2022). The Causes of Police Corruption and Working towards Prevention in Conflict-Stricken States. Laws, 11(5), 69.

The article highlights the significant responsibility of the police in maintaining law and order and how police corruption or perceived corruption can erode public trust and negatively impact the legitimacy of the government.

Chen, T. (2022, April). Multivariate analysis on determining the main influencing factors of police violence in the United States. In International Conference on Statistics, Applied Mathematics, and Computing Science (CSAMCS 2021) (Vol. 12163, pp. 16-21). SPIE.

The article objectively analyzes the causes of police shootings and their relationship to racial discrimination, using data from 2015 to 2020 published by the Washington Post in the context of movements like “Black Lives Matter,” which draw attention to discrimination based on race.

Joshi, S., Abdelfattah, E., & Tiwari, S. (2021, December). Analyzing Police Shootings in the US. In 2021 IEEE 12th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) (pp. 0092-0096). IEEE.

The research analyzes data on police killings in the United States from 2015 to 2020, including factors such as sex, age, race, location, and weapons used, in order to gain a better understanding of patterns and debunk simplistic explanations.

Sigfúsdóttir, I. D., & GBD 2019 Police Violence US Subnational Collaborators. (2021). Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression.

The above article discusses the under-reporting of violence caused by police in the Government of the US, providing vital registration data and also giving a mechanism to correct the under-reporting, which enables the presentation of the deaths revised estimates caused by the violence of the police USA.

Simeon, J. C., & Rikhof, J. (2022). Ending Exclusion from Refugee Protection and Advancing International Justice. Laws, 11(4), 61.

The chapter explores the human rights relationships to violations and critical international crimes and how perpetrators of such crimes are excepted from receiving protection and can be subject to prosecution.

Bonner, M. D., & Dammert, L. (2022). Constructing police legitimacy during protests: Frames and consequences for human rights. Policing and Society, 32(5), 629-645.

The article analyzes how police violence is justified by their supporters during the social protests in Chile in 2019, revealing strains among the legitimacy of police and the protection of human rights.

Bonner, M. D. (2021). Reclaiming citizenship from police violence. Citizenship Studies, 25(3), 317-332.

The article argues that violence of the police is a contributor to uneven experiences of citizenship and that understanding police violence requires analyzing debates among the general public regarding the interpretation and implementation of citizenship, with targeted communities creating dissensus on exclusionary practices and potentially contributing to the reconstruction of citizenship.

Malone, M. F. T., & Dammert, L. (2021). The police and the public: Policing practices and public trust in Latin America. Policing and Society, 31(4), 418-433.

The article discusses community-based policing implementation practices in Latin American countries, including analyzing whether they lead to increased trust in the police or if trust is more dependent on perceptions of police effectiveness, utilizing regression analyses on data obtained from Latin America Public Opinion Projects (LAPOP) survey conducted during the period of 2016-2017.

Rodríguez-Gómez, D., & Russell, S. G. (2022). Human Rights Violations Through Structural Violence: A Case Study of Human Rights Education in New York City. American Educational Research Journal, 59(1), 38-72.

The article argues that human rights education (HRE) should teach about human rights violations not only as direct violence but as a way of showing the structure, as this to help cultivate transformative knowledge to students based on the data collected qualitatively.

DeVylder, J. E., Anglin, D. M., Bowleg, L., Fedina, L., & Link, B. G. (2022). Police violence and public health. Annual review of clinical psychology, 18, 527-552.

The authors argue that addressing police violence requires not only clinical interventions but also a radical reform of the criminal justice system and a broader effort to tackle structural racism.

Kramer, R., & Remster, B. (2022). The slow violence of contemporary policing. Annual Review of Criminology, 5, 43-66.

The review highlights how contemporary policing causes slow violence practices on people of color, which shape various aspects of their lives, and urges researchers to study non-policing alternatives and take a more critical perspective on modern policing practices.

DeVylder, J., Fedina, L., & Link, B. (2020). Impact of police violence on mental health: A theoretical framework. American Journal of public health, 110(11), 1704-1710.

The article identifies factors that potentially distinguish violence of police violence together with other violence forms and explores how unique the violence caused by the police’s mental illness and mental health, highlighting eight ways that may alter this relationship.

O’Guinn, B. J. (2022). Police Training and Accountability: A Remedy or an Impediment for Reducing Unarmed Police Shootings? Crime & Delinquency, 00111287221074959.

The study tests the nexus between the training in an organization and accountability measures and the likelihood of shootings involving an unarmed officer of black citizens and finds that deadly force’s external review may decrease, although further investigation is required to establish definitive causal connections between other mechanisms and fatal police shootings, the probability of such incidents can be assessed.

Conti-Cook, C. H. (2015). Defending the public: police accountability in the courtroom. Seton Hall L. Rev., 46, 1063.

The article calls for police reform in America to bring attention to fatal police-civilian incidents, but by working together in a collaborative manner, reform efforts can capitalize on shared values and establish a mutually beneficial relationship between communities and law enforcement based on earned trust. With the federal government’s role uncertain, common ground will be embraced, and identification be an increasingly important path for police reform at the local level.

References

Bandes, S. A. (2022). From Dragnet to Brooklyn 99: How cop shows excuse, exalt and erase police brutality.

Bonner, M. D. (2021). Reclaiming citizenship from police violence. Citizenship Studies, 25(3), 317-332.

Bonner, M. D., & Dammert, L. (2022). Constructing police legitimacy during protests: Frames and consequences for human rights. Policing and Society, 32(5), 629-645.

Chen, T. (2022, April). Multivariate analysis on determining the main influencing factors of police violence in the United States. In International Conference on Statistics, Applied Mathematics, and Computing Science (CSAMCS 2021) (Vol. 12163, pp. 16-21). SPIE.

Conti-Cook, C. H. (2015). Defending the public: police accountability in the courtroom. Seton Hall L. Rev., 46, 1063.

DeVylder, J. E., Anglin, D. M., Bowleg, L., Fedina, L., & Link, B. G. (2022). Police violence and public health. Annual review of clinical psychology, 18, 527-552.

DeVylder, J., Fedina, L., & Link, B. (2020). Impact of police violence on mental health: A theoretical framework. American Journal of public health, 110(11), 1704-1710.

Joshi, S., Abdelfattah, E., & Tiwari, S. (2021, December). Analyzing Police Shootings in the US. In 2021 IEEE 12th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON) (pp. 0092-0096). IEEE.

Kramer, R., & Remster, B. (2022). The slow violence of contemporary policing. Annual Review of Criminology, 5, 43-66.

Malone, M. F. T., & Dammert, L. (2021). The police and the public: Policing practices and public trust in Latin America. Policing and Society, 31(4), 418-433.

O’Guinn, B. J. (2022). Police Training and Accountability: A Remedy or an Impediment for Reducing Unarmed Police Shootings? Crime & Delinquency, 00111287221074959.

Rodríguez-Gómez, D., & Russell, S. G. (2022). Human Rights Violations Through Structural Violence: A Case Study of Human Rights Education in New York City. American Educational Research Journal, 59(1), 38-72.

Sigfúsdóttir, I. D., & GBD 2019 Police Violence US Subnational Collaborators. (2021). Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression.

Simeon, J. C., & Rikhof, J. (2022). Ending Exclusion from Refugee Protection and Advancing International Justice. Laws, 11(4), 61.

Singh, D. (2022). The Causes of Police Corruption and Working towards Prevention in Conflict-Stricken States. Laws, 11(5), 69.