CRM 2305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shadow Children, Deadly Force, Crime Prevention
24 Apr 2015
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Deadly force against police: rare in canada, only two or three per year, much publicity given to those that occur, american rates are much higher. Even when taking into account the larger size of the population. Departmental policies: discretion is exercised by. Type of intervention: question, warning, arrest, detain, charge. Research on discretion: research results are unclear and conflicting. Most studies are based on hypothetical situations, not actual observations. Police numbers: there were 69,539 police officers in canada, 115 more officers than in 2011. Expressed as a rate, police strength declined slightly from the previous year to 199 officers per. 100,000 population: despite small declines in recent years, police strength in canada has generally been increasing over the past decade, up 7% since 2002. Over the same period, both the volume and severity of police reported crime have continued to decline: manitoba replaced saskatchewan in 2012 as the province with the most officers per.
