Her current research focuses on inmate misconduct, officer-involved domestic violence, and neighborhood predictors of intimate partner violence.
Command-level officers routinely received slaps on the wrist or no punishment, while lower-ranking officers were suspended for similar misconduct, officers wrote.
"We contend there's no misconduct by Officer Darvish, nothing that rises to the level that should be disciplined," said Corey Glave, Mr. Darvish's lawyer in the disciplinary case.
"I don't think throwing a football to a 7-year-old boy is misconduct," said Officer Catherine Guzman, a 17-year veteran of the force.
In the past year, as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other activist groups have drawn increasing attention to law enforcement misconduct, police officer unions around the country have garnered more and more headlines for supporting cops and opposing reforms.
In Newark, under McCarthy's tenure, the police refused to improve a defective early warning system to identify and control police officers with established patterns of misconduct, allowing officers with documented histories of abuse to stay in their jobs.
A Decline in Complaints of Officer Misconduct Misconduct by police officers - at least as measured in the number of complaints to the Civilian Complaint Review Board - are down so far in 2010, versus the same period a year earlier.
Faced with a credible allegation of serious misconduct, senior officers might be forgiven for taking the view that the only pragmatic solution is to permit the officer's retirement or resignation.
Mr. Stanley says that all parties stand to benefit — the public is protected from police misconduct, and officers are protected from bogus complaints.
One area of interest to prosecutors is a provision of the New York State Maritime Law called "loss of life by misconduct of officers," several officials said.
"Following the errors regarding the arrest and prosecution of Edmondson highlighted by the crown court proceedings, the case was reviewed by the directorate of professional standards in 2012 and it was assessed that there was no misconduct by officers involved.
