Excessive Use of Force

Paper Summary:

This paper examines three alternatives and their potential to thwart the unjustified use of excessive force by police officers. The alternatives are additional specialized training for police officers, use of a "force" form and the use of a police psychologist. It looks at how these alternatives are in actuality feasible and recognized ways to help control and prevent the use of excessive force by police officers.
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Decision Making Criteria
Feasibility
Alternative 1 - Specialized Training
Alternative 2- Use of Force Form
Alternative 3 - Police Psychologist

From the Paper:

"Over the past few years, however, greater attention has been given to the issue. Recent research has identified multiple determinants of the use of excessive force, raising questions about whether police departments should rely exclusively on pre-employment screening to identify violence-prone candidates and predict future officer performance. In fact, two reports that followed the Rodney King beating-the 1991 report of the Independent Commission To Study the Los Angeles Police Department and the 1992 Los Angeles County Sheriff's Report by James G. Kolt and staff-questioned the effectiveness of existing psychological screening to predict propensity for violence (Scrivner, 1994)."

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