| Description |
1 online resource (i, 68 pages) : color illustrations |
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Uniform crime reports |
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Uniform crime reports (Washington, D.C.)
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| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- Chap. 1. The offense and circumstances surrounding the offense -- Chap. 2. The victim -- Chap. 3. Post-assault effects and trauma -- Chap. 4. The offender -- Chap. 5. Procedural and training issues -- Chap. 6. Conclusion -- Chap. 7. Methodology -- Appendix 1. Protocols -- Appendix 2. Diagnostic criteria for post traumatic stress disorder -- Appendix 3. Selected summaries of the assault incidents -- Appendix 4. List of references |
| Summary |
This study investigates issues relative to assessing and addressing risks to officer safety. The study was conducted over a 3-year period and addressed 40 distinct cases of serious assaults on law enforcement officers. The cases involved 52 victim officers and 42 offenders. Routine, repetitive tasks emerged as a continuing threat to officer safety. Traffic stops, searches, and use of handcuffs are examples of tasks that should be second nature to officers but presented problems to the victims in the cases studied. Officers cited training as critical to the actions they took to protect themselves. Post-assault trauma and recovery proved to be areas that perhaps have not received appropriate attention from the law enforcement community. Many of the victim officers in the study displayed an uncommon "will to survive," an attitude many officers attributed to their survival training. This article reports extensive information on the victims, offenders, and incidents studied, and identifies specific areas where law enforcement training and procedures may be improved. Figures, tables, appendixes, references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-68) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Online resource (HathiTrust, HeinOnline, viewed September 26, 2017) |
| Subject |
Police -- Violence against -- United States -- Case studies
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Police -- Violence against.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Davis, Edward F., MS, author.
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Miller, Charles E., III, author.
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United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reports Section, issuing body.
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National Institute of Justice (U.S.), issuing body.
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