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What Counts as Police Violence? A Case Study of Data in the CATO Institute’s Police Misconduct Reporting Project

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Background This article presents a case study about the role of data in the CATO Institute’s Police Misconduct Reporting Project and reflects on what constitutes police violence. Analysis  Augmenting this data aggregation work,… Click to show full abstract

Background This article presents a case study about the role of data in the CATO Institute’s Police Misconduct Reporting Project and reflects on what constitutes police violence. Analysis  Augmenting this data aggregation work, the article turns to additional data projects focused on recording police crime and misconduct to gather a broader understanding of incidents of police violence beyond acts that cause death.  Conclusion and implications It is only when we look at data on acts of violence that occur when an officer is on duty and off-duty, with or without a firearm, that a clearer sense of the traumatic cycle of policing can be understood. This way of looking at police data requires both broader practices of “copwatching,” as well as a broader definition of what counts as violence. Contexte Cet article presente une etude de cas sur le role des donnees dans le Police Misconduct Reporting Project (Projet sur le recensement des inconduites policieres) du CATO Institute et offre une reflexion sur ce qu’est la violence policiere. Analyse L’article complete cette etude de cas en examinant d’autres projets semblables portant sur les inconduites et crimes policiers afin d’en arriver a une meilleure comprehension d’instances de violence policiere au-dela d’actions causant la mort. Conclusion et implications   C’est seulement quand on examine des donnees sur les actes violents ayant lieu quand un policier est de service ou non, avec ou sans arme a feu, qu’on peut mieux comprendre le cycle traumatique relatif au travail policier. Cette maniere de considerer les donnees sur la police requiert a la fois des pratiques plus englobantes de surveillance des policiers et une definition plus large de ce qu’est la violence.

Keywords: violence; police misconduct; misconduct reporting; misconduct; reporting project; cato institute

Journal Title: Canadian journal of communication
Year Published: 2020

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