https://github.com/samlau95/chicago-police

Analysis of repeat offenders within the Chicago Police Department
https://github.com/samlau95/chicago-police

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Analysis of repeat offenders within the Chicago Police Department

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/samlau95/chicago-police
• Owner: SamLau95
• Created: 2018-12-16T01:26:11.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-12-16T07:01:12.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-05T08:03:05.858Z (3 months ago)
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Chicago Police Data Analysis

The "few bad apples" hypothesis claims that police misconduct is primarily

caused by a small number of highly frequent violators. This hypothesis is

important because it informs policy decisions — if true, police departments

will more effectively improve overall police behavior by identifying and

removing "bad apples" instead of retraining their entire taskforce.

If the "few bad apples" hypothesis is true, we expect to find that:

1. Police with at least one complaint are likely to have multiple complaints.

2. An officer's number of past complaints predicts their likelihood of

   receiving future complaints.

I test the two hypotheses above by examining historical patterns of complaints

within the Chicago Police Department using data provided by the [Invisible

Institute][ii].

The full writeup is available at: https://github.com/SamLau95/chicago-police/blob/master/writeup.pdf .

The analysis code is available at: https://github.com/SamLau95/chicago-police/blob/master/analysis.ipynb .

[ii]: https://invisible.institute/police-data