Review Box 13.6. Construct an essay engaging the counterintuitive findings in this box. Such an essay should not only focus upon the specific points mentioned but also upon how important it is for today's contemporary officers to understand them. That is, civilian review is a movement that is growing rapidly. The police just about everywhere will have to deal with it at some point in the near future. Why is it important that they understand what this box suggests about the civilianization of police review?
What will be an ideal response?
Civilian review boards are actually slightly less prone to find the police guilty of misconduct than are internal affairs systems.
While police officers who have no experience with civilian review are almost universally against it-feeling that it will be biased and unfair to police officers-those officers who do have experience with civilian review are not against it.
Minority police officers - whether nor not they have experience with civilian review - tend to support the idea of civilian review, and by a wide margin.
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a. Middle class white women b. Prostitutes, homeless people and runaway children c. Both A & B d. None of the above
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a. Collins v. Virginia b. United States v. Chadwick c. United States v. Ross d. Birchfield v. North Dakota
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