Originally Posted by
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Thinking more about levels of death by cop and cop risk.
You could probably build a model off existing data for each type of cop interaction and make level of crime a function of say cop death per 1000 interactions.
The reason I find this interesting is that you can bet your ass that models exist with level of crime as a function of spending, number of police and all other manor of variables.
You also hear (I think ) of police talking about ways of minimising risk to cops which in itself must be how they come up with their standard procedures for most common scenarios. And I'm sure you could easily build a model, in fact many probably exist, for risk to cops as a function of spending, training and lots of other variables.
I just wonder if anybody ever put the two together and aggregated the information for all categories of interaction to come up with a model whereby for a given set of resources you can measure crime rate as a function of cop death.
It might be distasteful, but it seems relevant. Because once the resource levels have been chosen and allocated, the training schemes chosen and implemented, the public broadcasts carried out, the equipment picked, the sentences for particular crimes decided, all that's left is procedures and decisions of cop on the scene. And it would seem that the decisions that cop takes and the procedures he must follow have a direct causal link with chance of death and the level of crime stopped or accepted.