"Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Explore Police-Related-Deaths in the United States (2000-2017): The Case of Fatal Encounters".
"Using Crowd-Sourced Data to Explore Police-Related-Deaths in the United States (2000-2017): The Case of Fatal Encounters".
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10.5334/ohd.30
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2019-01-01
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Thomas, Kyla
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Finch, Brian Karl;Beck, Audrey;Thomas, Kyla
目标：我们评估了致命遭遇 (FE) 数据库作为跟踪警察相关死亡 (PRD) 的开源监视系统的情况。方法：我们将 FE 数据的覆盖范围与几个已知的政府来源的警察相关死亡和警察凶杀数据进行了比较。我们还复制了最近对国家暴力死亡报告系统的审查中的事件选择。结果：FE 收集了 2000 年至 2017 年 n = 23,578 个 PRD 的数据。一项试点研究和正在进行的数据整合表明，其覆盖范围比现有数据集更大。有限元数据的优点包括死亡情况的特异性、事件的地理位置、所涉及警察机构的识别以及数据的近乎即时可用性。缺点包括死者种族/族裔的缺失率较高、旧数据中的缺失事件率可能较高，以及排除了更全面的警察使用武力和非致命使用武力数据——这是适用于所有现有数据集的批评。结论：FE 是美国最大的 PRD 集合，并且仍然是历史趋势比较和警察部门层面对 PRD 原因进行分析的最有可能的来源。
Objectives: We evaluated the Fatal Encounters (FE) database as an open-source surveillance system for tracking police-related deaths (PRDs).Methods: We compared the coverage of FE data to several known government sources of police-related deaths and police homicide data. We also replicated incident selection from a recent review of the National Violent Death Reporting System.Results: FE collected data on n = 23,578 PRDs from 2000-2017. A pilot study and ongoing data integration suggest greater coverage than extant data sets. Advantages of the FE data include circumstance of death specificity, incident geo-locations, identification of involved police-agencies, and near immediate availability of data. Disadvantages include a high rate of missingness for decedent race/ethnicity, potentially higher rates of missing incidents in older data, and the exclusion of more comprehensive police use-of-force and nonlethal use-of-force data-a critique applicable to all extant data sets.Conclusions: FE is the largest collection of PRDs in the United States and remains as the most likely source for historical trend comparisons and police-department level analyses of the causes of PRDs.