Higher education and police performance.

摘要

Peace officers have come under heavy scrutiny across the United States in recent times regarding professionalism, training, and the use of coercive and deadly force. Research suggests that police officers with higher education are less supportive of abuse of authority, suffer fewer injuries, are less likely to be written up for misconduct, and use coercive force significantly less than their lower educated counterparts. By utilizing data from the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), I investigate and add to the body of research by analyzing police department's educational hiring requirements and their impact on sustained complaints regarding use of force against police departments. Results from a logistic regression analysis suggest that police department's educational hiring requirement is not statistically significant with any changes in sustained complaints.