Police Manipulations of Crime Reporting: Insiders' Revelations
Police Manipulations of Crime Reporting: Insiders' Revelations
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DOI：
10.1080/07418825.2014.980838
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Silverman, Eli B.
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作者：
Eterno, John A.;Verma, Arvind;Silverman, Eli B.
社会科学家对犯罪报告的腐败进行了理论化（Bayley, 1983; Campbell, 1976）。然而，很少有实证研究考察了现代警务方法对犯罪报告准确性的影响。我们的研究使用了一项匿名调查，调查了1770名退休的纽约市警察，调查了退休人员在退休期间犯罪报告被操纵的经历。这包括从社区警务和警察绩效管理时代退休的人员。我们对数据进行了各种统计测试，包括表格分析、图形趋势分析、方差分析和逻辑回归来解释报告的操纵。结果表明，绩效管理系统的不当使用和管理人员的压力是操纵犯罪报告的主要原因。个体解释变量如性别、教育程度、职级、种族和婚姻状况没有影响。我们的研究支持贝利和坎贝尔的理论。我们建议提高透明度以纠正这一问题。
Social scientists have theorized about the corruption of crime reports (Bayley, 1983; Campbell, 1976). Yet, scant empirical research has examined the impact of modern policing methods on the accuracy of crime reporting. Our research uses an anonymous survey of 1,770 retired New York City police officers examining retirees' experiences with crime report manipulations across their years of retirement. This includes retirees from the community policing as well as police performance management eras. We subject the data to various statistical tests including tabular analysis, graphical trends to visualize the data, MANOVA, and logistic regression to explain report manipulations. Results indicate that the misuse of the performance management system and pressures on officers from management are key explanations for manipulating crime reports. Individual explanatory variables such as gender, educational status, rank, race, and marital status had no effect. Our research supports Bayley's and Campbell's theories. We recommend greater transparency to remedy this.