Table 2:

Descriptive Statistics of Officer-Involved Homicides at the County Level, By Sheriff-Coroner Status, Data Source, and Type of Incident (FE).^a

			Statistics per county and year, by sheriff-coroner status
			No sheriff-coroner			Sheriff-coroner
			(County-year, N = 176)			(County-year, N = 926)
			Mean	Std. Dev.	Max	Mean	Std. Dev.	Max
			(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Incidents by data source
FE	All incidentsb		10.9	16.99	77	2.18	3.99	27
	Incidents by typec	Gunshots	8.07	13.49	59	1.46	2.9	22
		Intentional use of force	0.75	1.36	7	0.16	0.48	4
		Nonvehicular accident	0.28	0.62	3	0.08	0.37	6
		Pursuit	1.56	2.6	13	0.41	1.07	9
		Vehicular accident	0.23	0.63	4	0.07	0.47	11
SHR	All incidents		6.24	10.63	52	1.07	2.34	18
NVSS	All incidents		4.17	5.36	22	0.96	2.6	22

Abbreviations: FE, Fatal Encounters; NVSS, National Vital Statistics System; SHR, Supplementary Homicides Report.

^a This table contains statistics corresponding to the number of instances of officer-involved homicides reported in the following data sets and years for California’s 58 counties: FE (2000-2018), SHR (2000-2016), and NVSS (2000-2018). Each county-year observation is classified as “sheriff-coroner” if the sheriff was also the coroner figure in that county and year, and as “no sheriff-coroner” if there was a medical examiner or independent coroner in that county and year.

^b Includes a small number of nonvehicular accidents not noted separately by type.

^c FE classifies officer-involved homicides as follows: Gunshot is self-explanatory; intentional use of force includes asphyxiation and strangulation deaths; pursuit deaths are those homicides resulting from an active police pursuit; and vehicular accidents are those resulting from automobile accidents while officers are on patrol but not in active pursuit.