The Relationship Between Fatalities in Police Violence and Their Identifying Characteristics: Age, Gender, Race, and Region

Authors

Yuechu Hu, University of Minnesota - MorrisFollow

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Description

Police violence, highlighted by the George Floyd incident in 2020, has intensified concerns about police brutality and perceived racism in U.S. law enforcement (AP News, 2022). Therefore, we intend to analyze Fatal Encounters data, which documents non-police deaths that occur in the presence of the police in the United States. By creating statistical tables and graphs, as well as applying time-series methods, classification and regression trees, and a multinomial logistic regression model, we find that males and transgender people are more likely than females to encounter victimization during police brutality enforcement for any cause of death. Victims older than 19 are more likely to die in police brutality enforcement than victims younger than 19.

Publication Date

4-17-2024

Keywords

Police brutality--United States

Disciplines

Applied Statistics | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance

Recommended Citation

Hu, Yuechu, "The Relationship Between Fatalities in Police Violence and Their Identifying Characteristics: Age, Gender, Race, and Region" (2024). Undergraduate Research Symposium 2024. 1.
https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/urs_2024/1