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  2. Police reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [33] [34] Members of the Congressional Black Caucus indicated their appreciation of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, and said that while many American police officers serve honorably, the problems found in Ferguson such as the use of fines to generate revenue instead of promoting safety and justice, the use of excessive force, and ...

  3. Law enforcement in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Some law enforcement agencies may be owned, operated, or otherwise controlled by a private entity (such as a corporation) or is a police agency whose primary function is to provide contract based security services to private entities, and may be considered private police. For example, in Washington, D.C., special police officers from the Metro ...

  4. Predictive policing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Predictive policing uses data on the times, locations and nature of past crimes, to provide insight to police strategists concerning where, and at what times, police patrols should patrol, or maintain a presence, in order to make the best use of resources or to have the greatest chance of deterring or preventing future crimes.

  5. Private policing in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The origin of individual modern private police agencies vary in their original scope and purpose. For example, the San Francisco Patrol Special Police originally began as an agency intended to protect merchant operations from outlaws in the mid-1800's but, as of 2023, had shrunk down to only a single officer. [47] [48]

  6. Suburban New York police agency made illegal arrests, strip ...

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    The investigation into the Mount Vernon Police Department's pattern of officer misconduct is one of 12 probes opened by the Justice Department into local policing agencies in the past three years.

  7. Police reforms tested in city where officer killed Black man

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    The killing in 2020 of Floyd, a Black man, by a white Minneapolis police officer, touched off demonstrations and riots against racist policing across the U.S., including in Grand Rapids, where ...

  8. List of police reforms related to the George Floyd protests

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    On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an African-American man, was murdered by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis.A video of the incident depicting Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for an extended period, attracted widespread outrage leading to local, national, and international protests and demonstrations against police brutality and racism in policing.

  9. Intelligence-led policing - Wikipedia

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    Prior to intelligence-led policing, a responsive strategy was the main method of policing. However, as crime was perceived to outgrow police resources in the UK in the early 1990s, there was a demand gap, and a desire from police forces and policy-makers for a new strategy that would more efficiently use the resources available at the time [7]