A Conditional Ordinal Stereotype Model to Estimate Police Officers’ Propensity to Escalate Force
估计警员武力升级倾向的条件有序刻板模型
This article introduces a conditional ordinal stereotype model for estimating a police officer’s latent propensity to escalate to higher-severity force options during an encounter. Propensity to escalate is the likelihood of selecting a more serious force category than peer officers confronting the same circumstances, not necessarily implying that such force is excessive or contrary to policy. The associated conditional likelihood depends solely on data from the times and…