US States, Police Training v Shootings/Violent Crime (per million) [OC]Submitted by tommytornado t3_ywowl8 in dataisbeautiful
sourcreamus t1_iwlgkzb wrote
Reply to comment by edvardsenrasmus in US States, Police Training v Shootings/Violent Crime (per million) [OC] by tommytornado
It would be reasonable to assume that in places with lots of violent criminals there would be more interaction between violent criminals and police. That would lead to more police shootings. So the violent crime rate is a proxy for justified shootings.
You could go through the databases of cop shootings and categorize them into justified and unjustified. Then compare the unjustified rate with cop training. The problem with that is the low numbers would mean very noisy data.
edvardsenrasmus t1_iwlhzgb wrote
I don't think this violent crime rate data goes well with fatal shootings by police, if we want to contrast it to hours spent in training.
Your latter suggestion sounds reasonable, however, albeit more tedious to get the data, as you said yourself.
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