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100			_aWeitzer, Ronald,
245		0	_aCan the Police Be Reformed?. _cRonald Weitzer.
260			_bContexts, _c2005.
440			_aSIRS Enduring Issues 2006. _nArticle 77, _pInstitutions, _x1522-3256;
500			_aArticles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.
500			_aOriginally Published: Can the Police Be Reformed?, Summer 2005; pp. 21-26.
520			_a"Americans are ambivalent toward the police. We depend on them and are fascinated by them, as shown in the popularity of police shows on television--which usually present the police sympathetically. But confidence in the police is periodically shaken by revelations of misconduct. The most dramatic incidents involve the beating or killing or unarmed civilians, such as Rodney King in Los Angeles and Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo in New York. Less dramatic but no less serious are corruption scandals. The Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Department was recently caught up in such a scandal. Rampart officers were accused of falsifying police reports, stealing drugs from suspects, framing people, and abusing unarmed suspects. About 200 lawsuits have been filed against the city, and more than 100 tainted criminal convictions have been overturned." (CONTEXTS) The author examines the serious problems of police brutality and corruption in the United States, asserting that "some types of reform have the potential to curb police misconduct and to increase public confidence in the police."
599			_aRecords created from non-MARC resource.
650			_aAmericans _xAttitudes
650			_aCommunity policing
650			_aDiversity in the workplace
650			_aMinorities _xAttitudes
650			_aMulticulturalism
650			_aPolice _xComplaints against
650			_aPolice brutality
650			_aPolice corruption
650			_aPolice misconduct
650			_aRacial profiling
650			_aReform
650			_aResponsibility
710			_aProQuest Information and Learning Company _tSIRS Enduring Issues 2006, _pInstitutions. _x1522-3256;
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