Oversight in policing

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(d) Critique the effectiveness of citizen oversight as a police management tool, and early warning device:
The tracking system essentially consists of identifying personnel who are exhibiting chronic misconduct patterns. This system could check the unconstitutional violations both with the citizens and within the department as a whole. The intervention systems are good in managing the police and are based on the principle of preventing misconduct by monitoring the police. It was as stated by the Christopher Commissions analysis of one thousand eight hundred Los Angeles police officers showed that the top five percent of the officers were involved in 20% of complaints and the top 10% accounted for 33%. (Simmons, 2008)
Following that the early warning system is installed in New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and a host of other cities all across the US. As mentioned earlier the use of the consent decrees for use of force and investigation of force incidents are meant to be actual safeguards against errant behavior. In practice it is not possible to use these for monitoring by the citizen groups because of the technical nature of the reports and the departmental interests and nature involved


(e) Discuss the sustain rate and how this…

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