light. As any field of work, there are always some individuals, who decide to abuse their authority, which then leads to criminal activity. Police officers have access to “less than lethal” known as conductive energy devices, or better known as CEDs the TASER (Stinson et al., 2012). The purpose of “less than lethal force” is that police officers are more likely to succeed to getting a noncompliance individual to cooperate without fatal injury involved, much like the baton, metal flashlights (Stinson et al., 2012) or physical force however, all weapons can be used inappropriately or eventually causing death. Currently, there is not much empirical data available on the criminal misuse of TASERS by police officers although this may benefit researchers …show more content…
Police misconduct has resulted in a large amount of African American males killings in the United States which naturally leads to the many concerns about policing and how it is practiced, (Weitzer, 2015).
Alternative Approaches There are many alternatives to lethal force, however to implement such a practice within a department the change needs to begin with direction to the employees. Everyone needs to shift focus uniformly included starting from individuals who are the first point of contact with the public; our patrol officers, to the highest individuals in the chain of command, the chief of police. Some situations of police patrol already comes with the environment, such as neighborhood level stress which can lead to police stopping and questioning residents for potential drug use, and illicit activities (Weitzer, 2015)
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(2012) found that research study data identifying approximately 24 sworn law enforcement officers who were arrested for several crimes and the misuse of a “less than lethal” use of force tool, specifically identifying the TASER as the primary brand mentioned. In regards to gender, approximately 95.8% of males ages ranging from 32 and 83.3% age 47 year old were arrested. Many of the males identified did not hold a supervisory rank such as a sergeant or lieutenant and were employed for at least three years or more 78.9% with their respective departments (Stinson et al., 2012).
The peace officers were identified by coming from municipal police departments or sheriff’s offices and none were employed by a special law enforcement agency such as a park police, university police or tribal police (Stinson et al., 2012). Given this information, it shows that law enforcement training and certification is not something that could be an “across the board” training, all peace officers are trained differently even if they patrol in the same