While the proximate cause of any accident is usually someone's
immediate action- or omission (failure to act)-there is often a
trail of underlying latent conditions that facilitated their error:
the person has, in effect, been unwittingly "set up" for failure by
the organization. This Brief explores an accident in policing, as a
framework for examining existing police practices. Learning from
Error in Policing describes a case of wrongful arrest from the
perspective of organizational accident theory, which suggests a
single unsafe act-in this case a wrongful arrest-is facilitated by
several underlying latent conditions that triggered the event and
failed to stop the harm once in motion. The analysis demonstrates
that the risk of errors committed by omission (failing to act) were
significantly more likely to occur than errors committed by acts of
commission. By examining this case, policy implications and
directions for future research are discussed. The analysis of this
case, and the underlying lessons learned from it will have
important implications for researchers and practitioners in the
policing field.
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