Chapter 7 Understanding the impact of civilian misconduct cases on police officers

Officers are not being demoted despite having cases substantiated against them.

Only on rare occasions is an officer demoted.

Note: Red bar indicates the number of demotions and is not even visible in the graph.

It can be argued that promotions are being withheld as a punitive measure against an officer. Since each officer in this dataset has atleast 1 substantiated case, this could be a contributing reason to low rate of promotions.

Question for reader : Do you think this is sufficient?

The trend of promotions is different.

• Decreasing trend of promotions for substantiated cases

• This doesn’t hold for unsubstantiated cases nor for exonerated cases

There are fewer officers left in the force after multiple substantiated cases against them, but the numbers are still not encouraging.

Leaving cases unsubstantiated perpetrates the problem of police brutality against civilians.

A bigger proportion of White officers are being promoted despite having cases substantiated against them.

The reader should also note the faint red line which indicates demotions is present all races except for white officers

• Lieutenants have the highest number of complaints on average

• Detectives have the highest number of outliers