Going Beyond the Blue: The Utility of Emergency Medical Services Data in Understanding Violent Crime
Going Beyond the Blue: The Utility of Emergency Medical Services Data in Understanding Violent Crime
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超越蓝色：紧急医疗服务数据在了解暴力犯罪方面的效用
DOI：
10.1177/0734016821999700
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Jessica Huff
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作者：
Julie Hibdon;Cody W. Telep;Jessica Huff
全国受害数据显示，只有不到 50% 的暴力犯罪事件向警方报告。然而，向警方提交的正式犯罪报告往往是用于分析暴力问题、确定暴力犯罪地理集中度以及选择警察和预防资源目标的唯一数据类型。然而，问题仍然存在，对暴力犯罪发生率和地点的估计是否因单方面依赖警方数据而被扭曲？在这里，我们研究了消防部门收集的紧急医疗服务 (EMS) 数据是否与警方数据在空间上集中，以及这些数据是否可以帮助识别 2009 年至 2011 年间西雅图市未向警方报告的暴力事件。我们发现警方和紧急医疗服务数据的高度集中，并有证据表明通过利用多个数据源可以了解有关暴力问题位置的新信息。总体而言，这些发现有助于开展少量但不断增长的工作，证明非常规数据在识别犯罪和损害利益集中度方面的效用。
National victimization data suggest less than 50% of violent crime incidents are reported to the police. Official reports of crime to police, however, are often the only type of data used for the analysis of violence problems, the identification of geographic concentrations of violent crime, and the selection of targets for police and prevention resources. Yet, the question remains, are estimates of violent crime prevalence and location distorted from a unilateral reliance on police data? Here, we examine whether emergency medical service (EMS) data collected by the fire department are spatially concentrated in the same way as police data and whether these data can help identify instances of violence unreported to police in the city of Seattle between 2009 and 2011. We find high levels of concentration in both police and EMS data and evidence that new information is learned about the location of violence problems from utilizing multiple data sources. Overall, these findings contribute to a small but growing body of work that demonstrates the utility of nonconventional data in the identification of crime and harm concentrations of interest.
影响因子：
2
作者：
Carter, Jeremy G.;Mohler, George;Ray, Bradley
通讯作者：
Ray, Bradley