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Organizational Culture and Police Misconduct

2003; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.412620

1556-5068

Barbara E. Armacost,

Regulation and Compliance Studies

Most police departments defend controversial uses of force by individual officers in one of two ways: as well-intentioned but unfortunate responses to dangerous and ambiguous situations or as the aberrant behavior of rogue cops. These explanations are powerful and important because they frame the way police departments respond to police brutality. This article argues that because the stories police departments tell themselves (and us) about the causes of police violence are flawed and incomplete in essential ways, it is not surprising that judicial, administrative, and departmental responses to police violence are notoriously unsuccessful.