Table 1.
Estimated disparity in police use of force and suspect injury for persons with serious mental illness (PwSMI) in Census tracts and police precincts relative to persons without serious mental illness (relative risk)
| Use of Force | Suspect Injury | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census Tract | Police Precinct | Census Tract | Police Precinct | |
| PwSMI | 11.59 | 10.18 | 10.70 | 11.59 |
| (10.7, 12.55) | (8.85, 11.82) | (9.58, 11.82) | (9.87, 13.74) | |
| 2012 | 0.87 | 0.90 | 0.84 | 0.89 |
| (0.74, 1.02) | (0.64, 1.27) | (0.67, 1.06) | (0.61, 1.27) | |
| 2013 | 1.34 | 1.38 | 1.40 | 1.42 |
| (1.13, 1.57) | (0.96, 1.97) | (1.12, 1.77) | (0.97, 2.05) | |
| 2014 | 1.32 | 1.32 | 1.34 | 1.34 |
| (1.13, 1.57) | (0.91, 1.88) | (1.06, 1.68) | (0.9, 1.95) | |
| 2015 | 1.20 | 1.27 | 1.31 | 1.31 |
| (1.02, 1.42) | (0.9, 1.8) | (1.05, 1.63) | (0.9, 1.92) | |
| 2016 | 1.02 | 1.46 | 0.90 | 1.34 |
| (0.84, 1.22) | (0.96, 2.2) | (0.7, 1.15) | (0.84, 2.1) | |
| σβ | 1.61 | 1.12 | 1.7 | 1.22 |
| Φ | 1.23 | 3.27 | 0.85 | 2.92 |
| N | 5978 | 268 | 5978 | 268 |
Notes: Data from the National Justice Database and several public police departments. Numbers in parentheses give 95% credible intervals