Validating media-driven and crowdsourced police shooting data: a research note

Researchers have yet to explore the validity of ‘unofficial’ media-driven and crowdsourced police-involved killings data. This omission is important because unofficial data are touted as providing accurate counts and narratives pertaining to officer-involved shootings - at least relative to official...

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Autor principal: Ozkan, Turgut (Autor)
Otros Autores: Worrall, John L. ; Zettler, Haley
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: [2018]
En: Journal of crime and justice
Año: 2018, Volumen: 41, Número: 3, Páginas: 334-345
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Palabras clave:
Police killings
Civilian casualties
Crowdsourcing
Media
Murder
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Sumario:Researchers have yet to explore the validity of ‘unofficial’ media-driven and crowdsourced police-involved killings data. This omission is important because unofficial data are touted as providing accurate counts and narratives pertaining to officer-involved shootings - at least relative to official data. To address this shortcoming, we compared the incidence of and details surrounding officer-involved killings in three unofficial data-sets (FatalEncounters.org, Deadspin, and the Washington Post) to officially collected data on officer-involved shootings from the city of Dallas. Reporting on the incidence of officer-involved killings was mostly consistent across data sources. Incident details varied across data sources, however, especially with respect to investigation outcomes.
ISSN:2158-9119
DOI:10.1080/0735648X.2017.1326831