Complaint

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often left unspoken out of fear for the ramifications that may result from the complaints. However, following the series of events that led up to the public resignation of the University of Missouri’s president and chancellor, the silence has thus been broken and more and more complaints of racial injustice are being made, but many more victims are still too afraid to speak out or they do not believe that their complaints will be taken seriously by the campus administration as been proven time…

crime, the results suggested a 38% increase in the overall number of complaints towards officers, which represents a limitation in the evidence supporting the benefits of body cameras. However, the randomized controlled trial with the 650,000 residents of Denver, also demonstrated a 50% reduction in the use of force by officers with cameras, and a 90% decrease in the number of citizen complaints, in comparison to the complaints twelve months prior to the six-month experiment. The experiments,…

A news article released in the New York Times entitled Lawsuit Depict a Police Culture of Sexual Harassment and Cover-ups highlights the sexual harassment towards female police officers and how their complaints were not addressed when brought to authorities. In an industry that is prominently lead and consisted of male employees and employers' many female officers often felt harassed and discriminated against in the Manhattan police department. Some female officers even claimed that their…

been transferred to the Maryland Correctional Institution – Hagerstown. The original complaint named 11 defendants (Former JCI Warden John Wolfe, former JCI Case Manager George Allen, Lieutenant Barnes, Carol Jackson, Officer Robert Jordan, Lieutenant Ronel Legrand, Dr. Kevin J. McCamant, Dr. Jacqueline Moore, Sergeant Shekey Sellman, Captain Monique Shaw, and Betty Spriggs). On June 5, 2015, he amended his complaint naming ten additional defendants (former Commissioner of Corrections J. Michael…

Ariel, Farrar, and Sutherland (2014) conducted a randomized study in Rialto, California to determine the effect of body-worn cameras on uses of force and citizen complaints. A study conducted in Phoenix, Arizona provided cameras to officers in one district and utilized a similar district without cameras as the control study (Katz, Choate, Ready, & Nuño, 2014). Katz et al. (2014) sought to determine the effect body-worn…

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Some questions that the administration will have about BWC’s are, “Do my officers improve their ability to fight crime? Do they deter a person in custody or a person that is being put into custody from causing a situation that requires force? Will complaints go down if they are used?” and “will my officers mind wearing body worn cameras, or will it impede their…

Just imagine waiting at an office for an appointment and having nothing to do. You decide to pick up and read a magazine while you patiently wait. To your amazement, the magazine begins declaring very shocking allegations such as, ‘God hates fags!’, ‘Muslims are terrorists’, ‘Women belong in the kitchen’, and so much more. Would this language offend you? In addition, how would you feel? A similar scenario was presented when a group of Muslim petitioners commenced protesting the Canadian magazine…

Nicolle Essman filed a complaint against Dr. George Dowell Jr. alleging sexual misconduct. Located in the master file of this case is Essman’s written complaint, Dowell’s written statement and notes from Essman’s office visit. On May 4, 2015, I met with Nicolle Essman regarding the complaint filed. Essman agreed to the interview. Essman stated approximately thirty years earlier, when she was between the ages of five and seven, she was a patient of Dr. Dowell’s. Essman stated her father…