Dr. Philip Stinson '92, an Assistant Professor of Human Services at Bowling Green State University, just won a National Institute of Justice (NIJ) grant from the U.S. Department of Justice in excess of $260,000 to study the arrest records of on– and off-duty law enforcement officers across the nation.
According
to Stinson, the research is important because there are no
comprehensive statistics available on problems with police integrity,
and no government entity collects data on criminal arrests of U.S.
police officers.
"The
lack of statistics on police crime should be troubling to police
executives, researchers, policymakers and the general public,” he added.
Stinson and his colleagues expect to determine the nature and extent of police crime nationally.
"Police agencies cannot formulate effective policies to confront these
problems until they know what types of crimes police are most likely to
commit and the factors that seem to influence their commission,” Stinson
said.
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