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...government terminated a $14 million contract with the Harvard Institute for International Development(HIID) this June, only four weeks after accusing two institute officials of misconduct...
What constitutes effective oversight of that service remains a big question. As a means for exposing and punishing police misconduct, civilian review boards have a mixed reputation. Many have no subpoena power and meager investigative staff, which leaves them powerless to get to the bottom of cases. While the New York board is supposed to be made up entirely of civilians, a majority of its members are former law-enforcement officials, prosecutors and lawyers. "What is needed is an independent board of civilians who are trained in investigating complaints," says N.Y.C.L.U. head Siegel...
...nation's retina by the Rodney King beating in 1991. Greg Dossey's job for the past few years has been to reverse not just that image but the reality behind it as well. His efforts, along with some department-wide soul-searching, are paying off. There were 583 misconduct claims against Los Angeles police officers last year, about half the number recorded a decade earlier. Sixteen cases made it to court--by far the lowest number since...
...answer is that the nature of police misconduct, if not the volume, has changed. In the past, brutality frequently took the form of a cop retaliating against someone trying to harm him. Often it went unnoted. Today there is frequently an element of police gangsterism. Small groups of police officers share a fermenting contempt for the people they encounter. Rogue cops band together and cover one another's crimes. When all this unravels in public, it seems as if entire cadres are corrupt...
During my years as a police chief, I found that police misconduct often had its roots in subtle indications by supervisors to officers that the sort of "extralegal" tactics common to quality-of-life policing were acceptable. Cops in minority neighborhoods would detain, question and push around people on the street without reason. If a young man asserted his legal right to leave, cops "kicked ass." Inevitably a number of officers felt justified in using illegal and at times fatal force. It was constantly necessary to emphasize to the officers that we were peace officers, servants of the community...