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Stellar

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Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:01 AM Oct 2015

New York Police Will Document Virtually All Instances of Force

NYPD recruits are about to get a crash course in the ABCs of policing. New York Times

For the first time in its modern history, the New York Police Department is establishing explicit guidelines — backed by a sweeping new tracking system — for using and documenting force.

Every police officer will have to detail virtually every instance when force is used not only in an arrest but also in other encounters with the public, including the sort of brief, violent detention and release that occurs routinely on the street and, in the case of the retired tennis star James Blake, is captured on video.

Officers, who have long been required to intervene when they see other officers using excessive force, will now face formal discipline, up to and including dismissal, not only if they fail to step in or report excessive force, but also if they also fail to seek medical assistance for someone who requests it....


Cleveland Hires Monitoring Team to Oversee Police Reforms ABC NEWS
By MARK GILLISPIE, ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND — Oct 1, 2015, 2:00 PM ET

A nonprofit organization overseeing police reforms in Seattle has been hired to oversee a court-approved agreement between Cleveland and the U.S. Justice Department aimed at curbing police abuse and improving officers' relationships with the people they serve.

A federal judge on Thursday approved the hiring of Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC) to serve as the independent monitoring team for the consent decree to reform the Cleveland Police Department. The monitor will be Matthew Barge, a New York attorney and top executive with the organization.

The hiring of a monitor marks the beginning of what could be a long and arduous process to fix a troubled police department that has been criticized and closely scrutinized. A white officer fatally shot a 12-year-old black boy who was holding a pellet gun in November 2014, and two unarmed black people were killed in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire in 2012 after a high-speed car chase.

That 2012 case and other incidents prompted the DOJ to conduct a lengthy investigation of Cleveland police, the second such probe in just over 10 years. The Justice Department in December issued findings that said Cleveland police officers too often use excessive force and violate people's civil rights.

The city and DOJ subsequently agreed to negotiate a reform-minded consent decree that U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. approved in June. While the monitor has independent oversight over reform measures, Barge ultimately reports to Oliver, who maintains broad discretion over how the agreement is enforced...
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New York Police Will Document Virtually All Instances of Force (Original Post) Stellar Oct 2015 OP
And we'll have a surprising number of monitoring equipment failures/disappearances. valerief Oct 2015 #1
kick! Stellar Oct 2015 #2
I'm surprised that this is not already the rule. Nye Bevan Oct 2015 #3

valerief

(53,235 posts)
1. And we'll have a surprising number of monitoring equipment failures/disappearances.
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 11:29 AM
Oct 2015

Police have to stop taking 'roids. nt

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
3. I'm surprised that this is not already the rule.
Fri Oct 2, 2015, 01:15 PM
Oct 2015

Of course ever police department should document every use of force.

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