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The Vicious Cycle of Cops Behaving Badly

READ ABOUT:   Little Rock's Newest Corrupt Police Chief Kenton Buckner Pacific Standard Reports: The Vicious Cycle of Cops Behaving Badly Cops act badly. The public loses confidence in cops. Cops behave worse. The public's trust in cops drops to an all-time low. It's a dangerous, vicious cycle. With the recent surge in media coverage of unarmed black men being gunned down by police officers, America's faith in police officers is  plummeting . And it's not just the public that's losing faith: According to a  new study  in  Psychological Science in the Public Interest,  this "crisis in police legitimacy" is not only detrimental to the general public, but also to the future of policing as a whole. In social science circles, the level of trust placed in police officers by the public is known as "legitimacy." When police act respectfully, in the public's eye, their legitimacy goes up. When the

Department of Justice Sues Ferguson, Which Reversed Course on Agreement

READ ABOUT:   Little Rock's Newest Corrupt Police Chief Kenton Buckner Huffington Post Reports: Feds Sue Ferguson For Widespread Constitutional Violations And Racial Discrimination The Justice Department is suing Michael Brown's hometown after the city refused to accept a deal that would have reformed its mostly white police department.   02/10/2016 05:24 pm ET  |  Updated  4 days ago Ryan J. Reilly Justice Reporter, The Huffington Post Sebastian Murdock Reporter, The Huffington Post WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri,  on Wednesday  in an effort to end what it described as patterns of constitutional violations by the city's police department and municipal court.  The decision comes one day after Ferguson  rejected  a negotiated  deal that would have set the St. Louis suburb on a path toward reforming its police department. The original deal was arranged over 11 months