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Module 1.4 Civilian Review Boards and Police Accountability

Module 1.4 Civilian Review Boards and Police Accountability

Q Evaluate Current interest in the accountability of police agencies have been stimulated by everything from simple street encounters to more serious in-custody deaths (justified or not). This movement, which challenges the traditional relationship between the police and the public, has many pros and cons which will be discussed here. Choose a Side and Make Your Case Choose a position either in favor of or opposed to the use of civilian review boards for police oversight. In your argument, be sure you address your position on the following perceived pros: • citizen involvement in the complaint process, • reducing concerns that complaints are ignored, and the following perceived cons: • extreme costs for an effective review board, • the release of police officer data, • union opposition. Explain your position with a response paper of about one-and-a-half pages (400 words) following the APA writing style. The response papers in this course combine to make up 35% of your course grade.

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Accountability of police agencies are necessary as it will help reducing the brutality of police murdering. In order to keep check and balance over the police brutality Civilian Review Boards are established. It also has pros and cons because police data is compromised presented before the Boards. Above all, police accountability is indispensable and it must be continued working. Myriads of reasons became the causes of its establishment but the major was extra judicial killing. For instance, George Floy’s murder by a Minneapolis Police officer is an embodiment of such example which triggered the protest worldwide.