RT Article
T1 Police consent decrees and section 1983 civil rights litigation
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 16
IS 2
SP 575
OP 605
A1 Powell, Zachary A.
A1 Meitl, Michele Bisaccia
A1 Worrall, John L.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1583894659
AB Section 14141 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 granted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) the authority to investigate, intervene into, and force reforms within any police department deemed to exhibit a pattern or practice of police misconduct. The DOJ's primary enforcement mechanism is to sue the offending jurisdiction. Such lawsuits are typically settled with “consent decrees” or court‐ordered legal agreements to implement specified reforms. We assembled a panel data set to explore the relationship between consent decrees and civil rights litigation in 23 targeted jurisdictions. The results suggest that DOJ intervention may be associated with modest reductions in the risk of civil rights filings.
K1 Police misconduct
K1 Civil rights
K1 Section 1983
K1 Section 14141
K1 Panel models,
K1 Consent decrees
K1 Fehlverhalten
K1 Polizei
K1 Polizeiliches Fehlverhalten
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12295