Challenging the Ordinality of Police Use-of-Force Policy

Q1 Social Sciences Criminal Justice Policy Review Pub Date : 2021-08-13 DOI:10.1177/08874034211038346
Scott M. Mourtgos, Ian T. Adams, Samuel R. Baty
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Most use-of-force policies utilized by U.S. police agencies make fundamental ordinal assumptions about officers’ force responses to subject resistance. These policies consist of varying levels of force and resistance along an ordinally ranked continuum of severity. We empirically tested the ordinal assumptions that are ubiquitous to police use-of-force continua within the United States using 1 year’s use-of-force data from a municipal police department. Applying a quantitative technique known as categorical regression with optimal scaling, we found the assumptions of ordinality within the studied department’s use-of-force continuum (which is similar to many police use-of-force continua within the United States) are not met. Specifying physical force as a “lower” force option than less-lethal tools is associated with increased officer injury and decreased subject injury. Our findings call into question use-of-force continua featuring ordinal rankings for varying categories of less-lethal force.
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挑战警察使用武力政策的平常性
美国警察机构使用的大多数武力使用政策都对警察对受试者抵抗的武力反应做出了基本的顺序假设。这些政策包括不同程度的武力和抵抗,其严重程度一般。我们使用来自一个市警察局的1年武力使用数据,实证检验了在美国警察持续使用武力中普遍存在的顺序假设。应用一种称为最优比例分类回归的定量技术,我们发现所研究部门的武力使用连续性(类似于美国许多警察的武力使用持续性)中的一般性假设没有得到满足。将武力指定为比杀伤力较小的工具“更低”的武力选项,会增加军官伤害,减少受试者伤害。我们的研究结果对连续使用武力提出了质疑,连续使用武力的特点是对不同类别的杀伤力较小的武力进行有序排名。
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Criminal Justice Policy Review
Criminal Justice Policy Review Social Sciences-Law
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期刊介绍: Criminal Justice Policy Review (CJPR) is a multidisciplinary journal publishing articles written by scholars and professionals committed to the study of criminal justice policy through experimental and nonexperimental approaches. CJPR is published quarterly and accepts appropriate articles, essays, research notes, interviews, and book reviews. It also provides a forum for special features, which may include invited commentaries, transcripts of significant panels or meetings, position papers, and legislation. To maintain a leadership role in criminal justice policy literature, CJPR will publish articles employing diverse methodologies.
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