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Police use of force: examining the relationship between calls for service and the balance of police force and suspect resistance |
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| Authors: | John M MacDonald Patrick W ManzGeoffrey P Alpert Roger G Dunham |
| Affiliation: | a Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA b Florida Department of Law Enforcement, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA c Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA |
| Abstract: | Over the past decade, the use of force by the police has become an important public policy concern and topic of social science research. A number of researchers hypothesized about the factors that explain the amount of force used by police officers. Prior research focused almost exclusively on the highest level of force used in police-citizen interactions and neglected to examine the relative amount of forced used by the police compared to that used by suspects. To address this shortcoming, this study analyzed data from three years of official use-of-force reports in the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD). Contrary to studies that examine only the use of force by the police, this study found that the relative amount of force used by the police was greatest in the less threatening types of offenses. The implications of this study for research and policy are discussed. |
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