Massachusetts Police Procedure

Expanded access to naloxone among firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians in Massachusetts.

Naloxone is a medication that reverses respiratory depression from opioid overdose if given in time. Paramedics routinely administer naloxone to opioid overdose victims in the prehospital setting, and many states are moving to increase access to the medication. Several jurisdictions have expanded naloxone administration authority to nonparamedic first responders, and others are considering that...

Use of medical care, police assistance, and restraining orders by women reporting intimate partner violence--Massachusetts, 1996-1997.

Approximately 1.5 million women in the United States are physically or sexually assaulted by an intimate partner (IP) each year (1). The Woman Abuse Tracking in Clinics and Hospitals (WATCH) Project at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health analyzed data from the 1996 and 1997 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) in Massachusetts to 1) estimate the percentage of women aged ...

Shrewsbury , Massachusetts

Measuring Police Attitudes 1 POLICE DISCRETION Measuring Police Attitudes Towards Discretion

This paper describes the construction of two scales to measure police attitudes towards the selective enforcement of the law. The Service-Legalistic (S-L) scale measures police discretion along a flexible-inflexible continuum. Service-oriented police advocate the use of discretion to help solve social problems; legalistic police oppose discretion because it interferes with their duty to enforce...

The Police and Juvenile Crime Police Roles and Responsibilities Police–Juvenile Relations Police Discretion Race as a Factor in Juvenile Arrests Alternatives to Police Arrest and Custody

T first contact that a young juvenile offender has with the juvenile justice system is with a police officer. The nature and circumstances of this police contact are likely to be significant and have a lasting impression on a young person. In this chapter we examine police roles and responsibilities in general, and the unique roles that police have when dealing with juvenile offenders. Children...