@FBM,
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Voluntary reporting of data a few local jurisdictions hand-pick to report, with only a handful of volunteering departments from a handful of states participating, most of them with mostly rural populations. Not every representative of much of anything.
Yeah hold the phone cherry picker...
You left this out:
Since project inception (1995), a total of
564 agencies have provided
anonymous and voluntary use of force incident/complaint data to the
IACP. This data consists of
45,913,161 calls-for-service, 177,215
use of force incidents and
8,082 use of force-related citizen
complaints. The IACP utilizes this data to craft annual use of force
updates for the law enforcement community, the media, and the public.
A detailed summary of data contributions by data year is presented in
Table 2 (on page 3).
Data contributed for the years 1991–2000 represent a population of
149,940,551;
45,913,161 calls-for-service;
177,215 use of force incidents;
and
8,082 use of force complaints.
As a work in progress, the IACP National Police Use of Force Database has
always had the ultimate goal of presenting a nationally representative picture
of police and subject use of force in America. There are two basic ways to
approach this goal. The first is to receive use of force data from a
representative sample of reporting departments. Sampling theory suggests
that a statistically valid sample should consist of no less than
10% of a given
population. At that rate, this project would require data contributions from
1,700 departments in order to construct a sample, which is nationally
representative of police departments nationwide.
The second method is to achieve national representation in terms of the
civilian population represented by comparing the combined jurisdictions of the
contributing departments, to the total civilian population of the United States.
The United States Census Bureau data from the 2000 Census puts the
population of the United States at 281,421,906. The sum of jurisdiction sizes
reported to the IACP for the year 2000 was 81,710,260. Thus, the IACP use
of force
data for the year 2000 represents approximately 30% of the
entire US population.
