TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1991//
TI  - Complaints about police officers: A comparison among types and agencies
JO  - Journal of criminal justice
A1  - Dugan, John R.
A1  - Breda, Daniel R.
SP  - 165
EP  - 171
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
N2  - Two hundred and fifty-nine general law enforcement agencies were asked to report the lawsuits and agency-investigated complaints their officers had experienced during a one-year period. Five types of complaints were analyzed with regard to: frequency, distribution among agencies and officers, and sustainment. One hundred and sixty-five agencies, representing 3,515 officers, reported that 437 officers received 691 complaints. Twenty-five percent of these were sustained by the agencies, against 4.4 percent of the officers. Sixty-four percent of officers who received complaints received one. Complaints about<p />
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SN  - 0047-2352
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(91)90050-6
ID  - ref1
ER  -