Police misconduct refers to inappropriate conduct and illegal actions taken by police officers in connection with their official duties.
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16 Facts About Police misconduct
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Types of misconduct include among others: coerced false confession, intimidation, false arrest, false imprisonment, falsification of evidence, spoliation of evidence, police perjury, witness tampering, police brutality, police corruption, racial profiling, unwarranted surveillance, unwarranted searches, and unwarranted seizure of property.
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Police misconduct is sometimes associated with conscious or unconscious discrimination.
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Police misconduct's family has been subjected to public humiliation and trauma following his misconduct in the custody.
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Police misconduct interventions are mostly to prevent violent actions from members of radical and anarchists groups, but an important number of bystanders, journalists, and firefighters have been targeted by the police.
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Police misconduct has become an issue of high media attention in Norway.
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One officer employed in Oslo Police misconduct District was sentenced in 2006 to two years in prison for human trafficking, embezzlement of money and weapons, as well as theft of emergency passports.
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Police misconduct was acquitted on almost all charges by the regional court.
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Police misconduct was invited to the Saudi embassy in Turkey and was kidnapped there.
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The Abu Dhabi Police misconduct allegedly assisted Sheikh Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan in a 2009 torture incident.
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The Police misconduct are alleged to have used excessive force on critics and protesters.
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The New York Police misconduct Department had a prominent case of two detectives working for the Mafia during the 1980s.
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In between the years of 2010 and 2014 the total annual cost of police misconduct settlements increased, declining only in 2012, and then followed by the highest total in 2014 of $248.
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One attempt to track misconduct is the Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, which estimates misconduct rates using newspaper reports.
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Police misconduct officers were often followed by armed Black Panthers, who at times came to aid African-Americans who were victims of brutality and racial prejudice.
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Surveys suggest that officers are aware of the detrimental impacts of police misconduct and hold strong opinions as to what strategies are preferable.
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