Between 2022 and 2024, seven U.S. states banned deceptive interrogation tactics for juveniles. Using NIBRS data on 510,582 juvenile incidents, we find no pooled national effect on case clearance rates---but substantial heterogeneity across states.
How accurate are Americans' perceptions of police use of force?
Where do Americans most support calling off police pursuits---and what factors drive those differences?
A Bayesian analysis of seven years of daily data finds that patrol staffing levels are the most consistently significant factor affecting police response times across all priority levels.
Using structural topic modeling on a corpus of 29,035 news headlines spanning 1990-2021, this analysis identifies eight latent media narratives about police use of force and examines their association with public opinion.
A structural topic model analysis of public comments from a policing commission listening session reveals four distinct themes---including one of appreciation for officers that the local news coverage missed.
A Bayesian structural time series analysis finds a 388% increase in police resignations causally attributable to the post-George Floyd period, with probabilistic forecasts indicating continued increases.
A case study showing how pracademics used data analysis and research synthesis to drive a police department's internal COVID-19 infection rate below city, county, and state levels.
Using data from the Comparative Agendas Project, this analysis applies Punctuated Equilibrium Theory to explain the episodic, non-incremental nature of federal crime control legislation and criminal justice assistance funding from 1947 to 2017.
Text mining analysis of US senators' tweets in the two months following George Floyd's death reveals distinct differences in policing rhetoric between Republican and Democrat senators.