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Small-Town Police Accountability: Challenges and Recommendations

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  • Kelling, Claire
  • Haensch, Anna
  • Mendible, Ariana
  • Brooks, Spencer
  • Wiedemann, Alex
  • Aminian, Manuchehr
  • Hasty, Wade
  • Higdon, Jude

Abstract

According to the 2020 US Census more than 60% of the US population lives in towns with fewer than 50,000 residents, yet this is not in proportion with the research and public data surrounding policing, which focus on large and dense urban areas. One reason for this disparity is that studying small-town police departments presents unique obstacles. We present some of the challenges that we have encountered in studying small-town police activity such as data availability, quality, and identifiability, and our solutions to these challenges using computational tools. Finally, we give our recommendations in getting involved in this space based on our efforts to-date.

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  • Kelling, Claire & Haensch, Anna & Mendible, Ariana & Brooks, Spencer & Wiedemann, Alex & Aminian, Manuchehr & Hasty, Wade & Higdon, Jude, 2023. "Small-Town Police Accountability: Challenges and Recommendations," SocArXiv 2gyuv, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:2gyuv
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/2gyuv
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    1. Madison Arnsbarger & Joshua Goldstein & Claire Kelling & Gizem Korkmaz & Sallie Keller, 2021. "Modeling Response Time to Structure Fires," The American Statistician, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 75(1), pages 92-100, January.
    2. Lynne Peeples, 2020. "What the data say about police brutality and racial bias — and which reforms might work," Nature, Nature, vol. 583(7814), pages 22-24, July.
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