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Academic Forensic Pathology
|December 22, 2022
Summary
Officer-involved deaths are underreported more in counties with sheriff-coroners. This disparity suggests political influence may affect death classification in official records.
Area of Science:
- Forensic Science
- Public Health Policy
- Criminology
Background:
- Death investigation systems vary by U.S. state, with some allowing sheriffs to act as coroners.
- Official data sets are known to undercount officer-involved homicides.
- The structure of death investigation systems may influence reporting accuracy.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate if sheriff-coroner systems lead to greater underreporting of officer-involved deaths compared to independent systems.
- To analyze how violent death classification may differ based on the coroner's office structure.
Main Methods:
- Compared data from the FBI's Supplementary Homicide Reports and National Vital Statistics System with Fatal Encounters data (2000-2018).
- Analyzed incident ratios across California counties with sheriff-coroners versus those without.
- Quantified underreporting differences descriptively and used bivariate tests of means.
Main Results:
- Sheriff-coroner counties showed significantly greater underreporting of officer-involved deaths in both official data sets.
- These underreporting differences persisted across the study period.
- Findings remained robust even when focusing on gunshot and intentional use-of-force deaths.
Conclusions:
- Underreporting of officer-involved deaths is more pronounced in sheriff-coroner jurisdictions.
- Disparities in reporting warrant further investigation into potential political pressures influencing death classification.
- Systemic differences in death investigations impact the accuracy of official statistics.
Keywords:
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