Arrested Oversight: A Comparative Analysis and Case Study of How Civilian Oversight of the Police Should Function and How it Fails

01/01/2009 Scholarship

By Stephen Clarke & Campaign Zero

Study: Existing studies of civilian oversight have done little to indicate
how failed civilian oversight bodies can be and should be reformed. In order to build a roadmap for reform, this Note details the oversight gap that civilian oversight has been used to fill and explores strengths and weaknesses of different types of civilian oversight bodies.