Researche Paper (for Hifsa Shakaut)

Research Paper: The paper will be 10-12 pages in length, not including the cover page, table of contents, reference page, or appendices. Students will conduct a review or audit of materials of their choice. The audit or review will be informed by the practices identified in this course and the academic material. The review can be documents at their workplace or from another source. In all cases, the documents must be ones that would normally be open to public inspection and not be comprised of any confidential or protected materials. The paper will contain protocols identified in class and consistent with government audit standards. The paper will also provide an overview of the industry standards/best practices for the audited or reviewed topic. It will conclude with clear and detailed recommendations recommended as a result of the audit or review. Pick a topic and set of documents that can be reviewed or audited. My topic is “DOJ Use of Force Review”

The following is the suggested outline for your research paper.

1-Cover Sheet

2-Executive Summary

3-Table of Contents

4-Background

5-Objectives, Scope, and Population

6-Methodlogy & Analysis Page

7-Findings

8-Recommendations

9-Response from Subject of Audit

10-Appendix A: Best Practices Review

11-Appendix B: Other Relevant Material

You will see the attached description outline to help you with the related topic for research paper. You should be able to include this information where it is needed in the paper.

Below is a list of publications to help you regarding the DOJ Use of Force Review topic. You can pull this from the internet. Also, you can add this as reference just as it is listed.

· Government Accountability Office, Use of Force: ATF Policy, Training and Review Process Are Comparable to DEA's and FBI's. Report number GGD-96-17, March 1996;

· International Association of Chiefs of Police, Model Policy on Use of Force, Effective Date August 2001, Reevaluation Date August 2002;

· International Association of Chiefs of Police, Model Policy on Investigation of Officer Involved Shootings, Effective Date November 1998;

· International Association of Chiefs of Police, Model Policy on Reporting Use of Force, Effective Date February 1997, Reevaluation Date February 1998;

· Newspaper articles reporting shootings incidents involving LEOs; and

· Law Enforcement Executive Forum, New Challenges for Law Enforcement Professional Standards, 2003.

Here are some links that maybe useful:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-releases-study-on-active-shooter-incidents

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/dea-misled-congress-deadly-shootings-honduras-drug-operations-n764256

It might be a good idea to find some data charts with shooting incidents and include it. You can attach images just like the research sample. I pulled this offline. I think something like this will be good. But I will let do what you know best.

Figure 6: Total Shooting Cases in the OIG's Review

Source: OIG analysis of components' shooting incident data.

The 124 cases we reviewed encompassed a variety of enforcement activities in each of the components, as shown in Table 2.

Table 2: Cases by Type of Activity and Component
Component	Arrests: warrant/surveillance	Stings: buy/bust or other	Peace Officer	Total Cases
ATF	19	1	3	23
DEA	16	19	5	40
FBI	28	6	5	39
USMS	19	0	3	22
TOTAL	82	26	16	124

Source: OIG analysis of components' shooting incident data.