Section 1983 and Correctional Liability (232)

Civil Liability in Criminal Justice
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Risks involved in police pursuits and how officers mitigate these risks.
A police pursuit mostly deals with the vehicular chasing of suspected law offenders by the police. Many risks are involved and they result in deaths, injuries, and accidents. One risk encountered by police is over speeding. High speed can cause a lot of harm to the police themselves and the public. Dangers are mostly experienced when common high-speed chase policies are violated. Sometimes cops fail to use seat belts during high-speed chase and speed without lights and sirens activated. Officers and supervisors in command end a pursuit under unsafe high-speed chase in order to avoid accidents.
Another possible risk is night pursuits. Police who are not familiar with an area of the track might have challenges in identifying the possible hideouts of the suspect (Barineau, 1994). The reaction is reduced in night pursuits since vision is limited to head lights. There are high chances of an accident occurring in night trails due to a narrow vision which causes confusion. Evening pursuits can be well done by police who are familiar with an area.
Weather is a common risk in cops patrols. Some atmospheric conditions reduce the efficiency of carrying out a police chase. Fog, ice, and snow reduce visibility, some make the roads sticky. Heavy rains limit vision and speed. Heavy rain, snow, wind, fog, and ice add elements of danger to police pursuits.

Therefore the nature of a crime should be weighed first before the actual tracking and especially when the weather is not favorable.
The public can pause risk to a cops chase. Most citizens lack the knowledge of what to do and how to behave during a police trail. Some members of the public may just go in the direction of the pursuit exposing themselves to the danger of being hurt by even the suspect. The patrolmen have no shame of ending a pursuit when it exposes the public to dangers.
Liability issues involved in domestic violence cases.
Domestic violence mostly disadvantages a woman. Liability in domestic violence is seen in various ways. When an officer increases an individual’s danger. A department is also liable when it increases a victims trouble. Interference of actions by department or an officer increases liability. When an individual is given court protection and police are notified of the cover-up. The potential liability increases and incases anything happens to such an individual the police are answerable.
Liability in domestic violence increases depending on the language of certain court orders as to whether various responses are mandatory to the individual facing the domestic violence. In case there are actions that increase dangers or harms the victim performed by certain party answerability increases. Accountability can also heighten when the victim is hindered from assessing help from the third party.

References
Barrineau, H.E. (1994). Civil liability in Criminal Justice. Cincinnati, Oh: Anderson publishing.