- James Fyfe
James J. Fyfe (
February 16 1942 -November 12 2005 ) was a well-known criminologist -- a leading authority on the police use of force and police accountability -- and a police administrator.His research on the police use of deadly force has been cited extensively, most notably in the 1985 Supreme Court case of "
Tennessee v. Garner ", in which the Court ruled as unconstitutional police department policies that allow officers to shoot to kill "fleeing felons" who do not pose an immediate danger to the community.Fyfe had risen to the rank of lieutenant with the
New York Police Department and in 1978, after 15 years of service with the NYPD, earned aPhD inCriminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany (SUNYA).He became a professor of
criminal justice atAmerican University inWashington, D.C. (1979-92), then atTemple University in Philadelphia (1992-99), and finally atJohn Jay College inNew York City (1999-2005), where he was appointed distinguished professor in 2002.In 2002 he took a leave of absence from John Jay to become Deputy Commissioner for Training with the NYPD.
He died of cancer in 2005, aged 63.
Books
*"Police Administration," 5th edition, with Jack R. Greene, William F. Walsh,
O.W. Wilson , and Roy Clinton McLaren (1997)*"Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force," with Jerome Skolnick (1992)
*"Police Practice in the '90s: Key Management Issues" (1989)
*"Readings on Police Use of Deadly Force" (1982)
*"Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement" (1981)
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