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In a 2013 survey, the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics found that 72.8% of local police officers were white. Black or African American were 12.2% (the black population in the United States is roughly 13%) and Latino or Hispanic are 11.6%. Women made up 17% of full-time sworn officers. [148]
The New York Police Department's Strategic Response Group (SRG) is a unit of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) formed in 2015 for counter-terrorism and the policing of political protests. They maintain a bike squadron and are outfitted with anti-riot gear, rifles, and body armor.
t. e. Law enforcement mounted a response to the January 6 United States Capitol attack, initially failing to maintain security perimeters and protect parts of the building from being breached and occupied, but succeeding at protecting members of Congress, and subsequently, as reinforcements arrived, to secure the breached Capitol.
The North Bureau has averaged the best average response times. But they are rising as well. North Bureau’s average priority E response times climbed 50%, from 6 minutes and 8 seconds in 2012 to ...
Police officers interact with the public in Des Moines, Iowa, during Police Week 2010. Community policingor community-oriented policing(COP) is a strategy of policingthat focuses on developing relationships with community members. It is a philosophy of full-service policing that is highly personal, where an officer patrols the same area for an ...
As the Kansas City Police Department’s response to Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Chiefs rally is scrutinized in the coming days, the agency’s unusual governance structure could shield it ...
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has provided training to more than 500 frontline officers in an effort to improve its response to victims of rape and sexual crimes. Over the last 12 months ...
In the United States, use of deadly force by police has been a high-profile and contentious issue. [ 1] In 2022, 1,096 people were killed by police shootings according to The Washington Post, [ 2] while according to the "Mapping Police Violence" (MPV) project, 1,176 people were killed by police in total. [ 3][ 4] MPV documented 1,213 killings ...