Table 2.
Comparison of Domestic Violence and Assaults Before and During COVID-19: Results of Poisson Regression Test.
| Domestic violence calls | Domestic violence arrests | Assault calls | Assault arrests | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | b | Robust SE | IRR | b | Robust SE | IRR | b | Robust SE | IRR | b | Robust SE | IRR | |
| COVID-19 | −0.01 | 0.01 | 0.99 | −0.04 | 0.04 | 0.96 | −0.07 | 0.03* | 0.93 | −0.12 | 0.06* | 0.89 | |
| Trend | −0.13 | 0.00*** | 0.88 | −1.20 | 0.05*** | 0.30 | −1.32 | 0.06*** | 0.27 | −1.67 | 0.06*** | 0.19 | |
| BLM protests | ––– | ––– | ––– | −0.01 | 0.01 | 0.99 | ––– | ––– | ––– | 0.00 | 0.02 | 1.00 | |
| Use of BWC | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | 0.06 | 0.04 | ––– | 0.15 | 0.07* | 1.16 | |
| Month | |||||||||||||
| January (omitted) | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ––– | ||
| February | −0.03 | 0.02 | 0.97 | −0.01 | 0.03 | 0.99 | −0.02 | 0.04 | 0.98 | −0.02 | 0.04 | 0.98 | |
| March | 0.01 | 0.02 | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 1.01 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 1.05 | −0.01 | 0.03 | 0.99 | |
| April | 0.03 | 0.01 | 1.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 1.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 1.04 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 1.00 | |
| May | 0.02 | 0.01 | 1.02 | −0.03 | 0.04 | 0.97 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 1.06 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 1.00 | |
| June | 0.02 | 0.02 | 1.02 | −0.01 | 0.04 | 0.99 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 1.05 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 1.01 | |
| July | −0.01 | 0.02 | 0.99 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 1.00 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 1.01 | |
| August | 0.02 | 0.02 | 1.02 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 1.00 | −0.07 | 0.04 | 0.94 | |
| September | 0.03 | 0.01** | 1.04 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 1.01 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 1.05 | −0.01 | 0.03 | 0.99 | |
| October | 0.03 | 0.01* | 1.03 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 1.01 | 0.08 | 0.03** | 1.08 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 1.04 | |
| November | 0.02 | 0.01 | 1.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 1.02 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 1.03 | −0.01 | 0.04 | 0.99 | |
| December | 0.01 | 0.02 | 1.01 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 1.01 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 1.03 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 1.01 | |
| Wald χ2 | 2996.0*** | 1246.7*** | 2105.0*** | 1509.9*** | |||||||||
| Pseudo R2 | 0.333 | 0.260 | 0.297 | 0.328 | |||||||||
Note.N = 113. BWC = body-worn camera; BLM = black lives matter; b = standardized coefficient; SE = standard error; IRR = incidence rate ratio. Use of BWC, BLM protests, month, and trend are control variables.
***p < .001. **p < .01. *p < .05.