Steven Rosenfeld's Use Of Force In Supervisory Investigations

The fifth reason is that the top cops don't want to hear about it. Some incidents aren't reported or addressed. Steven Rosenfeld reviewed supervisory investigations of officer’s use of force that appear to be designed to justify the officer's actions. He found out that some specially trained investigators use their investigations to make it seem like the accused police officer is a good person. His sixth reason is that the top cops ignore the worst abuses. His seventh reason is most cops don't face disciplinary threats. However, when we examined CDP’s discipline numbers further, it was apparent that in most of those 51 cases the actual discipline imposed was for procedural violations such as failing to file a report, charges were dismissed
or deemed unfounded, or the disciplinary process was suspended due to pending civil claims. A finding of excessive force by CDP’s internal disciplinary system is exceedingly rare”(Rosenfeld).