| Recently there has been increased attention on officer complaints and their utility as a performance indicator. Citizen complaints have, however, received limited testing in terms of a predictor of how officers distribute force. Using data from the Project on Policing Neighborhoods, in St. Petersburg, Florida, the authors examine approximately 1,500 police-suspect encounters to determine whether complaint prone officers use coercion differently from non-complaint prone officers in everyday encounters with the public. |
Updated 05/20/2006