Citation

Brandl SG, Stroshine MS, Frank J. J. Crim. Justice 2001; 29(6): 521-529.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/S0047-2352(01)00114-3

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article identifies the characteristics of police officers (officers' background attributes, arrest activity, and assignment) who most frequently receive complaints from citizens regarding the use of excessive force. The data for the study were obtained from a large mid-western municipal police department. The results show that arrest activity, officer age, and officer gender are most strongly related to the receipt of citizen's complaints about excessive force and differentiate high-complaint officers from low-complaint officers. Implications of the findings are discussed.