New Jersey Police Use of Force Statistics

[carlitos]

Exactly. The 21:1 stat above for some counties and towns are likely indicative of this, not local cops roughing up grandmas. Jersey has some nasty towns.

There's no need to guess what's "likely" when I have posted the report here for you to read. Lakewood in Orange County, NJ is where the 21-to-1 stat was from.

- https://datausa.io/profile/geo/lakewood-nj/#intro
- https://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/new-jersey/lakewood-township.html

Lakewood Township crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 17 years with violent crime decreasing and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in Lakewood Township for 2018 is expected to be lower than in 2016.

The city violent crime rate for Lakewood Township in 2016 was lower than the national violent crime rate average by 57.55% and the city property crime rate in Lakewood Township was lower than the national property crime rate average by 61.38%.

In 2016 the city violent crime rate in Lakewood Township was lower than the violent crime rate in New Jersey by 31.21% and the city property crime rate in Lakewood Township was lower than the property crime rate in New Jersey by 38.72%.

Doesn't sound "nasty" to me.

ETA - this graph for each area is also very useful.

Under Los Angeles' system, 26 officers in this department would have been flagged for review.

Under New York City's system, 75 officers in this department would have been flagged for review.

Under Chicago's system, 82 officers in this department would have been flagged for review.

 

[Thermal]

There's no need to guess what's "likely" when I have posted the report here for you to read. Lakewood in Orange County, NJ is where the 21-to-1 stat was from.

- https://datausa.io/profile/geo/lakewood-nj/#intro
- https://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/new-jersey/lakewood-township.html



Doesn't sound "nasty" to me.

ETA - this graph for each area is also very useful.

Good catch, I would have never guessed Lakewood. Will look that over more when on laptop

 

[Thermal]

Ok. The Lakewood force report says that 708 of the 800 uses of force were compliance holds for resisting arrests. Not nearly as bad as i thought. Actually surprised compliance holds are considered use of force. Still surprised Lakewood would be up there at all

 

[Brainster]

There's no need to guess what's "likely" when I have posted the report here for you to read. Lakewood in Orange County, NJ is where the 21-to-1 stat was from.

- https://datausa.io/profile/geo/lakewood-nj/#intro
- https://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/new-jersey/lakewood-township.html

Doesn't sound "nasty" to me.

ETA - this graph for each area is also very useful.

Lakewood is in Ocean County, not Orange County. I did a little digging into the numbers on Lakewood and it appears to me that they may be "adjusted". Here's the #1 cop in Lakewood for use of force, Eduardo Vega. Right off the bat, you may notice a problem with the stats. Vega has been responsible for 7 uses of force per annum, which is right in line with the overall department's use of force. So how can he be #1? It makes no sense.

And if you scroll down a bit, we find that of his 35 uses of force about 11 were against white subjects, 15 were black and the remainder (9) were Hispanic. You can probably already sense the problem. If black people were 21 times more likely to be the subjects of police force, how come the cop most likely to use force seemed to spread his around reasonably evenly?

I suspect the answer is that they are saying that because blacks make up only 4.2% of the city's population, they should make up 4.2% of those on the receiving end of police force. But of course that only applies if the vast majority of the uses of force were against local residents.