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She became Avon and Somerset Police's first woman Chief Constable in November 2021 when she was promoted from the deputy position. [1] She worked with academics on a collaboration called Project Bluestone where they were trying to improve the police's response to victims of rape. [3]
Chief Constable Sarah Crew—the first woman to hold that position after her November 2021 appointment [13] —is featured in the documentary. She stated in June 2023 that the police were institutionally racist. [ 15 ]
Sarah Crew, chief constable since 2021, said parts of the series had been "uncomfortable" to watch. [58] Incidents in the programme raise questions about use of force and racial profiling . In one case, a constable is fired after publishing revenge porn ; in another, an officer is acquitted after having sex on duty with an intoxicated woman.
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The DOC operates the Central Detention Facility (), at 1901 D Street Southeast.The jail opened in 1976. [4]In 1985, a federal judge in the case of Campbell v.McGruder, a lawsuit filed against the District of Columbia for unconstitutional jail conditions, set a population cap of 1,674 inmates for the D.C. Jail. [5] This judicially imposed cap was lifted in 2002, after seventeen years.
The Alabama prison system has been under heightened federal scrutiny for several years. A federal judge ruled in 2017 that mental health care of state inmates is “horrendously inadequate."
A corrections officer at the D.C. Jail was arrested for having marijuana in his locker at the jail after a police dog detected the presence of the drug. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] In 2014, a retired officer at the D.C. Jail sued the department of corrections for the right to carry guns after he reported receiving threats from inmates that he supervised. [ 33 ]
The story of a mentally ill man jailed on littering charges who killed himself by taking a chainsaw to his neck while on work duty at a state prison near Miami provokes a visceral reaction. We ...