So in a society where the every time you flip on the television you hear how some cop just beat up some “innocent” citizen. This subject brings up multiple questions on the types of force, how this force is used, as well as who is the victim and who is the offender?
So how often do police use this excessive force? 5.61 times per 10,000 calls-for-service. This translates to a rate of 0.0561%. Expressed another way, police did not use force 99.9439% of the time. How much force is used? The street continuum tracks the actual progression of type of force, employed by either officers or subjects. physical force was the most common force used by officers, followed by chemical force and then impact. The use of chemical force, primarily OC products such as pepper spray was greater than the combined totals for electronic, impact and firearm force.
Are police using force differently today than in years past? For officers using physical force, chemical force, and firearm force. Just as an example of how use of force has changed in the past twenty years in 1990 the ratio between the frequency of physical force incidents to …show more content…
Arrests are most frequent when it comes to use of force. Of the reported which included the totality of the circumstances 39% were arrest related. The next largest category was disturbance with 21% of use of force incidents, and traffic stops with 14% What are the racial characteristics of use of force incidents? Of the 8,148 reported incidents in which the contributors included racial identification for both the involved officers and subjects. Of this total, 3,169 involved white officers using force on white subjects, 3,622 involved white officers using force on African American subjects, 585 involved African American officers using force on African American subjects and 277 involved African American officers using force on white subjects. Which begs the question is this a race issue or class
So how often do police use this excessive force? 5.61 times per 10,000 calls-for-service. This translates to a rate of 0.0561%. Expressed another way, police did not use force 99.9439% of the time. How much force is used? The street continuum tracks the actual progression of type of force, employed by either officers or subjects. physical force was the most common force used by officers, followed by chemical force and then impact. The use of chemical force, primarily OC products such as pepper spray was greater than the combined totals for electronic, impact and firearm force.
Are police using force differently today than in years past? For officers using physical force, chemical force, and firearm force. Just as an example of how use of force has changed in the past twenty years in 1990 the ratio between the frequency of physical force incidents to …show more content…
Arrests are most frequent when it comes to use of force. Of the reported which included the totality of the circumstances 39% were arrest related. The next largest category was disturbance with 21% of use of force incidents, and traffic stops with 14% What are the racial characteristics of use of force incidents? Of the 8,148 reported incidents in which the contributors included racial identification for both the involved officers and subjects. Of this total, 3,169 involved white officers using force on white subjects, 3,622 involved white officers using force on African American subjects, 585 involved African American officers using force on African American subjects and 277 involved African American officers using force on white subjects. Which begs the question is this a race issue or class