What Counts as Police Violence? A Case Study of Data in the CATO Institute’s Police Misconduct Reporting Project

Background This article presents a case study about the role of data in the CATO Institute’s Police Misconduct Reporting Project and reflects on what constitutes police violence. Analysis Augmenting this data aggregation work, the article turns to additional data projects focused on recording police...

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Published inCanadian journal of communication Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 91 - 100
Main Authors Feigenbaum, Anna, Weissmann, Dan G.B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto University of Toronto Press 01.01.2020
Subjects
Accountability
Case studies
Crime
Criminal statistics
Data management
Domestic violence
Journalism
Police
Police shootings
Social networks
Surveillance
Violence
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Summary:Background This article presents a case study about the role of data in the CATO Institute’s Police Misconduct Reporting Project and reflects on what constitutes police violence. Analysis Augmenting this data aggregation work, the article turns to additional data projects focused on recording police crime and misconduct to gather a broader understanding of incidents of police violence beyond acts that cause death. Conclusion and implications It is only when we look at data on acts of violence that occur when an officer is on duty and off-duty, with or without a firearm, that a clearer sense of the traumatic cycle of policing can be understood. This way of looking at police data requires both broader practices of “copwatching,” as well as a broader definition of what counts as violence.
ISSN:0705-3657
1499-6642
DOI:10.22230/cjc.2020v45n1a3453