Use of Force, Training And Costs For Police Agencies Per The USDOJ

Highlights-Police Policies Training, costs, community policing, use of force, use of blunt force projectiles (i.e., bean bags-rubber bullets), use of chemical agents (tear gas), active…

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81 Percent Express Confidence in Police Yet Polls Show Declines And Disparities

Highlights When adding all three categories in a recent Gallup poll, a great deal of confidence, quite a lot, and some, 81 percent expressed a…

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Funding Reduced For Most Police Agencies-Violence Increasing

Highlights Few law enforcement agencies, regardless of size, are being spared. It’s being called a “perfect storm” and the biggest budget cuts in a decade.…

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What The Public Thinks About Police Reform And Defunding

Highlights Per Gallup, “Most Americans Say Policing Needs Major Changes.” Every day brings more protests and endless videos of riots, looting, arson, graffiti, and assaults…

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Social Workers And Cops-We Can’t Be All Things To All People

Highlights “We have a joke in policing, that cops hate two things: change and the way things are,” (social media response). Any sense that cops…

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Defunding The Police? It Already Happened-Law Enforcement Expenditures Since 2000

Highlights National police spending has been relatively flat or has decreased in recent years. There is a twenty-eight percent increase in violence (with serious violent…

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Social Workers Need To Step Up And Replace Cops

Highlights If you want to significantly reduce use of force issues in policing, social workers need to respond to many crisis situations. Being a cop…

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Per Cops-No Justice-No Peace

Highlights No justice no peace?  That’s what cops are saying to themselves by forgoing proactively. As a result, violence is increasing. If you condemn all…

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Is Crime Control Dead?

Highlights If crime control is no longer the priority then be prepared for major changes that citizens will find abhorrent. There has to be some…

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Public Confidence In The Police Is Stronger Than You Think

Highlights The recruitment of cops is down 63 percent. Officers are calling in sick throughout the country. A DC police union survey says 71 percent…

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Arrests and Police Contacts Plummet While Violence Increases

Highlights Per the US Department of Justice, violent crime increased 28 percent since 2015. Serious violent crime is also increasing. This is happening while arrests…

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Defunding The Police-What Cops Support

Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd and the black lives matter protests. The problem with defunding law enforcement is that…

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Cops And The George Floyd Disturbances-Is It Time To Leave?

Highlights A search for answers after the death of George Floyd. If America now believes that all cops are the problem, why would they stay?…

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Forcing Cops To Be Coronavirus Enforcers-Is This Wise?

Highlights Cops are enforcing Coronavirus pandemic requirements per the demands of politicians, citizens, health experts, and the media. There are comparisons to stop and frisk…

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The Coronavirus, Crime And Law Enforcement Responses

Highlights For the moment, crime during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) seems moderate. Law enforcement is inventing some unique responses. The Coronavirus will push the justice system…

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Aggressive Cops Or Politicians-Who Is Responsible For Strained Community Relations?

Highlights Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for his controversial “stop and frisk” policy that sowed distrust of police during his administration. Cops continue…

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Are Political Charges Of Police Brutality And Racism Supported By Data?

Highlights There are charges of police brutality and institutionalized racism by Democratic candidates Biden, Sanders, and others. Per the US Department of Justice, among people…

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Are Dramatic Reductions In Lower Level Arrests Increasing Violence?

Highlights Has the dramatic decrease in arrests for lower-level crimes led to the twenty-eight percent national increase in violent crimes? Will cops ever return to…

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