Policies and Practices to Minimize Police Use of Force Internationally (2022) / Chapter Skim
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, they violate fundamental human rights, including the rights to life, liberty, and security of person, the prohibition of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and r espect for the inherent dignity of the human person (United Nations, 2009)
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THE COMMITTEE'S CHARGE The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine assembled the Committee on Evidence to Advance Reform in the Global S ecurity and Justice Sectors ("the committee") to review the available research evidence on how police reform can promote the ROL (including human rights)
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As such, the police institution has great responsibility to act in ways consistent with laws and international human rights norms and standards. Adherence to human rights standards, understood as a set of normative commit ments (Bottoms and Tankebe, 2017)
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? What is known about effective practices for imple menting those policies and practices in recruitment, training, and internal affairs?
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The Cano (2021) paper considered polices and measures in six categories: norma tive approaches in the application of the law, internal control mechanisms, external oversight bodies, training for officers, technology for monitoring, and administrative measures.
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SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM Police use of excessive force is a recognized problem, but the scale is widely debated, in part due to data limitations. There are media reports of injuries and deaths at the hands of law enforcement in nearly every country.
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The lack of transparency about the extent of excessive force may pose a major threat to the ROL and to trust in state institutions. In some countries, media and civil society organizations have begun compiling individual cases and generating estimates of people killed in police encounters.
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