CRJU110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Convenience Store
30 Jan 2017
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Experienced a contact with police about 43 million (20%) Drivers in a motor vehicle stop about 19 million: use of force encounter resulted about 139 thousand. All other contact about 25 million: use of force encounter resulted about 282 thousand. Police encounters with citizens: a police officer id legally justifies in using force to protect him/herself from physical attack or to subdue a suspect who is resisting arrest, a(cid:374)(cid:455) for(cid:272)e (cid:271)e(cid:455)o(cid:374)d that is (cid:862)i(cid:373)proper. (cid:863) Excessive force by type (2010: physical 57, firearm 15, mixed 13, taser 11, chemical 2, k9 2, auto 0% Bjs 1999 report: reported that police officers used force or threatened to use force in about 1% of all encounters with citizens (averages 421,000 force incidents each year nationally; includes justifies and unjustified) Studies estimate that approximately 1/3 are unjustified (140,000) annually): what we know about police use of force:
