This month at CJ access were looking at issues of race, police shooting, and police performance so be sure to check out:
Research Briefs-exploring the connection between race, minority dense neighborhoods, and fatal shootings by the police; using better benchmarks to generate more accurate data on racial disparities in fatal officer involved shootings; constructing and utilizing a typology of police shooting errors; and using detailed police officer performance metrics to analyze their performance in police-citizen encounters
For Discussion-Racial profiling is on its face viewed as discriminatory, but does the use of race or ethnicity to focus an investigation or inquiry ever have a place? What are officers’ views? From an investigative standpoint, it may be something to be used with discretion as I explore with an excerpt from my dissertation
Original Research-An academic research article from 2013 where I utilized NCVS data from 12 cities to examine the differences between races on their satisfaction with the police and whether utilizing components of Community Oriented Policing affected that level of satisfaction
Also this month, a new and improved PDF reader is installed on the site, allowing convenient full screen reading and the ability to download PDFs found in Original Research
