incident: Incidents in the NJ OAG Use of Force database

In tor-gu/njoaguof: NJ OAG Use of Force data package

Incidents in the NJ OAG Use of Force database

Description

Use of force incidents from the NJ OAG Use of Force database.

Usage

incident

Format

A dataframe with 23 columns

form_id

A unique identifier for the row, present in the source data

report_number

An identifier for a use of force report (potentially containing multiple incidents)

incident_case_number

A unique internal agency case number assigned to the incident.

incident_date_1

The date of the incident. In the source data, this is column IncidentDate1, and is the date the OAG dashboard uses as the incident date.

agency_county

The county of the agency. Note that this is not the incident location. This is column County2.

agency_name

The name of the agency, e.g. "Essex Co Sheriffs Office".

incident_municipality

The municipality where the incident occurred.

incident_municipality_county

The county where the incident occurred.

officer_name_id

An ID identifying the officer. In the source data, this is column officer_name.

officer_name

The most common name associated to the officer_name_id. In this table, each officer_name_id is associated to a single name, while in the source data, names will sometimes vary in spelling and capitalization.

For name variants, refer to table officer_name_variants. To associate a name variant to a specific incident, refer to the raw data use_of_force_raw, column Officer_Name2.

officer_age

The officer's age.

officer_race

The officer's race.

officer_rank

The officer's rank.

officer_gender

The officer's gender.

officer_injured

TRUE if the officer was injured in the incident. C.f. tables incident_officer_injury_type and incident_officer_medical_treatment.

video_footage

TRUE if there is video footage of the incident. C.f table incident_video_type.

indoors

TRUE if the incident was indoors. Not exclusive of outdoors.

outdoors

TRUE if the incident was indoors. Not exclusive of indoors.

subject_count

Number of subjects involved. This will reliably match the number of subject in the subject table with same form_id.

subject_injured_count

Number of injured subjects. This field corresponds to column TotalSubInjuredIncident in the raw data.

Warning This field is not reliable. There over 700 incidents with subject_injured_count > subject_count and over 3500 rows with subject_injured_count == 0 that have matching rows in incident_subject_injury indicating specific injury types.

Source

https://www.njoag.gov/force/

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