Police Coercion: Application of the Force Continuum by William Terrill

By William Terrill

Utilizing observational information from towns, Terrill reviews police use of strength to raised know how and why officials inn to strength. He examines the level of strength inside person police-citizen encounters and exams a number of theoretical views (sociological, mental, and organizational) referring to why officials inn to strength. additional he bargains the Resistance strength Comparative Scale as a way for interpreting how officials circulate concerning the strength continuum. effects convey that officials use greater degrees of strength on male, nonwhite, terrible, younger, and intoxicated voters, providing fundamental help inside a sociological theoretical framework. unusually, even though, officials aren't extra forceful towards disrespectful voters. Analyses additionally exhibit that officials differentially improve and de-escalate strength based on the presence and nature of citizen resistance. apparently, officials don't bounce on the chance to take advantage of strength on resistant suspects, providing as an alternative a moment probability to conform sooner than using elevated degrees of strength.

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The index ranged in Indianapolis patrol beats from a low of 4 to a high of 76, with a median of 36. In St. Petersburg the index ranged from 4 to 103, with a median of 15. 9 St. Petersburg beats were selected to match those chosen in Indianapolis, and were also distributed across St. 10 Ride Sampling In Indianapolis 194 different patrol officers and 48 different supervisors were observed covering almost 2,800 hours of observations and consisting of 6,485 police-citizen interactions. In St. 11 Both general patrol officers and community policing officers were observed in rough proportion to their representation in the personnel allocation to the study beats.

In St. 11 Both general patrol officers and community policing officers were observed in rough proportion to their representation in the personnel allocation to the study beats. In total, 336 and 360 shifts were observed in study beats in Indianapolis and St. Petersburg respectively. The goal was to reach a quota sample that: (1) covered all work shifts for each beat, (2) included the diversity of patrol units that worked the study beats and larger areas that covered those beats, and (3) included both slow and busy days of the week.

Does this still hold today, at least within the two departments observed in this study? The only way to know is to test it. In effect, a holistic approach is applied in reference to asking “why” do officers use force, much like Friedrich did with the Reiss/Black data of the 1960s and much like Worden did with the Police Services Study of the 1970s. This is an opportunity to apply the same approach with data collected some 20 years later in the context of two different departments. Having made the argument that it is advantageous to look at possible explanations of force in such a broad and encompassing manner, it must also be recognized that this approach is somewhat generic and to some extent limiting.

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