Good Cop, Bad Cop: Using Civilian Allegations to Predict Police Misconduct

Autor:	Max M. Schanzenbach, Kyle Rozema
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	05 social sciences Flexibility (personality) Criminology Officer Misconduct Incentive Civil rights Political science 0502 economics and business 050501 criminology 050207 economics General Economics Econometrics and Finance 0505 law Allegation
Zdroj:	American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. 11:225-268
ISSN:	1945-774X 1945-7731
DOI:	10.1257/pol.20160573
Popis:	Preventing police officer misconduct, while giving police officers the incentives and flexibility to fight crime, is a notoriously difficult challenge. We explore whether civilian complaints can help identify and reduce police officer misconduct. Using data on over 50,000 civilian allegations against police officers in Chicago over a 13-year period, we find that civilian allegations are strongly associated with (1) non-civilian allegations of misconduct, such as allegations from supervisors, and (2) the likelihood of and outcomes in civil rights litigation. We conclude that civilian allegations contain a strong signal of police officer misconduct. In particular, lawsuits against police officers are external and quantifiable measures of officer misconduct and typically arise from serious incidents. We further find that, if an administrative body sustains an allegation against an officer, that officer’s civilian allegation rate decreases and the probability that he or she exits the force increases. We conclude that civilian allegations against police officers in Chicago can be better utilized to prevent misconduct.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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