This statistic, cross-referenced with how often they're sued for excessive force, seems like a good place to start when culling policemen across the country.
Some of you no doubt disagree, but I am steadfastly of the opinion that we need the police, in some form. Therefore, the best compromise is regulation and oversight. That's never going to be perfect, but it can certainly be better than it is now.
Some actual numbers: So this isn't a case of thousands of police, ten resisting cases. A second criticism I have that isn't addressed is how many of those officers listed are non-arresting or non-active police officers. I imagine a FBI agent who specializes in busting down doors is going to do a lot more resisting arrest than the average cop in a suburb.WNYC looked at over 51,000 cases where someone was charged with "resisting arrest" since 2009. They found that 40 percent of those cases — over 20,000 — were committed by just 5 percent of all the police officers on the force. And 15 percent of officers accounted for a majority of all "resisting arrest" charges.
The New York Police Department is made up of 35,000 officers, and just a minority of them have sent people into court for "resisting arrest."
I'm not sure what you mean by "non-arresting or non-active police officers".
It's a good point I hadn't considered. all the same I have to imagine that there are more than 15% of officers who are going to be making some arrests. It's still probably a good place to start sifting through the data. I know that in my city there are a small number of officers that have repeatedly been sued for using excessive force, I wouldn't be surprised if these same aggressive assholes charged people for resisting arrest more than their fellow officers. The guy who shot a 12 year old girl with a bean bag round is the same guy who kicked in the ribs of a non-threatening mentally ill guy and is probably the same guy that lets situations get out of hand so he can beat some ass a lay a resisting arrest charge (Officer Chris Humphrys). The data might say something different but I'd be surprised if there isn't a correlation with cops who use excessive force who also charge people with resisting arrest more often because these are the kinds of cops that aren't good at controlling a situation with anything other than physical force.
According to the FBI website, New York has 35,000 officers and 15,000 civilian employees. Office workers are already discounted from the article's statistics. You're wrong.