Article
Research Brief One-Sheet No.7: Police Integrity Lost: Introducing a Study of Law Enforcement Officers Arrested
Criminal Justice Faculty Publications
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Article
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Abstract
There are no comprehensive statistics available on problems with police integrity, and no government entity collects data on all criminal arrests of law enforcement officers in the United States. Police crimes are those crimes committed by sworn law enforcement officers with the general powers of arrest. These crimes can occur while the officer is either on‐ or off‐duty and include offenses committed by officers employed by state and local law enforcement agencies. This study provides a wealth of data on a phenomena that relates directly to police integrity—data that previously did not exist in any useable format.
Publisher's Statement
Support was provided by the Wallace Action Fund of Tides Foundation, on the recommendation of Mr. Randall Wallace, and by Award No. 2011‐IJ‐CX‐
0024, awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Justice.
Publication Date
1-1-2016
Citation Information
Philip M Stinson and John Liederbach. "Research Brief One-Sheet No.7: Police Integrity Lost: Introducing a Study of Law Enforcement Officers Arrested" (2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/philip_stinson/65/