Civilian Oversight of Policing

International Policing: a new Evolutionary Stage of Military Organization

Inhalt 1. Police and armed forces two polar types of coercive organizations ..................................................... 2 2. Decentralized Conflicts and Enlarged Policing Ambitions: the New Era of Global Policing ..................... 4 3. Ambiguities, Dilemmas and Incompatibilities: The New Problems of Policing Militaries ........................ 6 3.1 Unspecified intervention criter...

Policing following political and social transitions: Russia, Brazil, and China compared

This is a comparative analysis of policing in three countries that have experienced a major political or social transition, Russia, Brazil, and China. We consider two related questions: (1) how has transition in each country affected the deployment of the police against regime opponents (which we term “repression”)? And (2) how has the transition affected other police misconduct that also victi...

A Plea for Harm Reduction Policing Involving People Who Use Drugs

Does Oversight Reduce Policing? Evidence from the Cincinnati Police Department After the April 2001 Riot

Oversight of a bureaucracy induces its agents to yield to consumers’ demands excessively. Oversight is initiated by consumers’ complaints when they are wrongly denied the resource under allocation. This paper tests this prediction in a police setting. A riot erupted in Cincinnati after a white officer shot dead an unarmed African-American male in April 2001. The sharply increased media attentio...

Civilian use of night vision goggles.

Civil aviation operators have expressed an increased interest in conducting night operations with night vision imaging systems. The development of special operational concepts, hardware requirements, training requirements, and regulatory change and oversight is necessary to control for the known performance constraints associated with these devices. In 2001, the Aerospace Medical Association in...