There are a lot of things going on today about how police use force. People are steady dying or getting hurt. For example, in August of 2014, a teenage boy was shot and killed by a police officer in St. Louis, Mo. Since then, police have killed more than 1,083 Americans, according to Vice News. There have been riots and chaos for justice for some of these people. People have destroyed lots of stores and places because they were angry with the officers. When people are apart of the riots, some of them get physical with officers, which causes the officers to hurt them. These riots are just causing more conflicts. According to Katz, Walter. "Enhancing Accountability And Trust With Independent Investigations Of Police Lethal Force.", trust with
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A review is given about the thoughts and studies that try to explain police use of force. Literature recommends the use of unnecessary force is acceptable to the police as they perform their tasks in their particular work environment. There is no exact definition of excessive force, but experts described it as using more force than necessary to gain compliance in an incident. It is hard to determine if a police officer is using excessive or unnecessary force because there is no exact definition. Worden quoted that officers do not use force in most cases, but when force is used, a large proportion of it is unnecessary. Studies that have tested the factors that led to an officer’s use of force typically examined three broad components. The first factor is offender characteristics. Officers was more likely to use force on younger suspects, African-American, male, lower class, or intoxicated. The second factor is officer characteristics. Research Gender and race have no relationship to the use of force. The third factor explains the use of force is situational; legal and extra-legal suspects. Use of force has been related to suspects involved in a violent offense and offenders who are arrested after a foot or car pursuit. Officers believe that unnecessary or excessive force is acceptable under the proper circumstances. Carter found that two-thirds of officers believed excessive force could be used for retaliation and not just for self-defense. Weisburd and Greenspan studied survey data from 925 police officers in 113 different police departments. Majority of the officers do not agree with the use of excessive force, but a large amount believed
A review is given about the thoughts and studies that try to explain police use of force. Literature recommends the use of unnecessary force is acceptable to the police as they perform their tasks in their particular work environment. There is no exact definition of excessive force, but experts described it as using more force than necessary to gain compliance in an incident. It is hard to determine if a police officer is using excessive or unnecessary force because there is no exact definition. Worden quoted that officers do not use force in most cases, but when force is used, a large proportion of it is unnecessary. Studies that have tested the factors that led to an officer’s use of force typically examined three broad components. The first factor is offender characteristics. Officers was more likely to use force on younger suspects, African-American, male, lower class, or intoxicated. The second factor is officer characteristics. Research Gender and race have no relationship to the use of force. The third factor explains the use of force is situational; legal and extra-legal suspects. Use of force has been related to suspects involved in a violent offense and offenders who are arrested after a foot or car pursuit. Officers believe that unnecessary or excessive force is acceptable under the proper circumstances. Carter found that two-thirds of officers believed excessive force could be used for retaliation and not just for self-defense. Weisburd and Greenspan studied survey data from 925 police officers in 113 different police departments. Majority of the officers do not agree with the use of excessive force, but a large amount believed