What is the Government doing to stop police brutality and officer misconduct?

Question

laws, movements, programs, training oficers, protections ect.

I mean, the negative aspects of brutality/misconduct. The cases where officers do not follow proper procedures for example, the biased officers who are either racially charged or thinking that they are "above the law". Also, would it be possible for Detective Bureau or the JD to be biased, as well? How hard it would be, to correct the incident, what precautions are made to limit this from happening?

Answer 1

I worked for a large department in OH for 25 years and there were many, many changes implemented through the years.

The officers are always being updated on new laws even though all of us had an S.O.P. that we had to maintain and have inspected every year.

They have to qualify at the shooting range several times a year, they continue to take defensive driving at various times throughout their careers, they have to take PC classes over and over, along with numerous other things depending on the particular jobs they do.

Every officer has to be assigned to take radar training and if they don't pass, they have to go through it again and continue until they qualify.

Each officer has to go through training for traffic control when they first graduate from the Academy. Sounds easy but try it once, especially at a very busy intersection where people don't want to listen to you and want to do their own thing. We had an officer who was close to retiring who was drug to his death a few years ago because the driver refused to stop. He only stopped then because citizens blocked him in. That citizen was a heartless murderer.

Everyone in the department had to take computer classes so they'd be familiar with how to work the various programs that we used. Some had to learn about NCIC, AFIS and other systems so they required more schooling for those and other systems their particular department used.

And many of the officers had to take training to learn how to get into the court system records, how to run information on license plates, VIN numbers, suspect/warrant info and other things they would be required to deal with on the street.

Anyone in the Detective Bureau had their own computer systems/formats and had to learn how to use those to research for information on suspects and property.

Anytime there is a racial problem, the JD steps in and started scrutinizing what classes certain officers (the ones with complaints) had taken to make sure they had been properly trained by the city. These investigations sometimes took several months before they were resolved.

The IA Bureau has grown tremendously because people want to complain on the police every time they get a hang nail or stub their toe so even though there are alot of real complaints, there are more that should never have been made and are unfounded.

So that means when IA is involved in investigations, officers are once again taken off the street and called in to HQs for interrogation and questioning and who knows when they might get back on the street that night.

So is it no wonder there aren't enough officers on the street? And this is only a drop in the bucket because there are many things I'm not as familiar with since I was a civilian.

This goes beyond what you are asking but it also shows you that officers have to go through a tremendous amount of training on alot of different things throughout their career. There is so much paperwork anymore most people would never believe it unless they saw it for themselves.

Remember, officers are people, too, and they have all the same feelings, all the same emotions that you do.

And when they have to shoot and kill someone, their heart aches, too, and they lose alot of sleep over having to take that action. It wasn't their choice to do it, it was the suspect's who forced them to.

And while they grieve over what they had to do, they are raked across the coals as they are questioned over and over again by the department and the Grand Jury who investigates every shooting. And they have to put up with being ridiculed by the heartless press and the public who haven't a clue what an officer really goes through.

Walk a mile in my shoes....

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Having the offenders retrained in humanitarian procedures at Guantanamo Bay? :))

Answer 4

People must complaint every police abuse so that proper actions will be taken against the abusers.

Answer 5

depends on which government u r talking about