Back in 2015, when he was still FBI Director, James Comey had this to say about the unavailability of reliable and comprehensive data on the use of deadly force by police officers in the United States:
So intrigued by the numbers as you move into the third stage data set. Dropping about 2900 agencies you lose a whopping 2000 deaths, or ~.7 per agency. That seems per agency much higher than the <.5 deaths per agency remaining. Understand that you can’t get much from those agencies because of overlaps etc. but it does seem that there is a story there worth exploring.
Max the agencies dropped at this stage are Sheriff's offices and some of them are very large, LA County SO for example has about 10K officers, similar in size to the LAPD. We analyse these separately from the PDs but can't easily link them to census data so the analysis is more limited.
So intrigued by the numbers as you move into the third stage data set. Dropping about 2900 agencies you lose a whopping 2000 deaths, or ~.7 per agency. That seems per agency much higher than the <.5 deaths per agency remaining. Understand that you can’t get much from those agencies because of overlaps etc. but it does seem that there is a story there worth exploring.
Max the agencies dropped at this stage are Sheriff's offices and some of them are very large, LA County SO for example has about 10K officers, similar in size to the LAPD. We analyse these separately from the PDs but can't easily link them to census data so the analysis is more limited.
This is very helpful and comprehensive! Thank you.