The Phoenix Project: Predictors of Suspect Use of Force

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ABSTRACT: This study includes several separate analyses using data from the NIJ funded study "Understanding the Use of Force By and Against the Police" by Garner, Buchanan, Hepburn, Schade and Fagan (1995). The data includes information regarding 1585 arrests made in Phoenix, Arizona in 1994. The original study identified factors likely to result in police use of force in effecting an arrest. This reanalysis is divided into three main parts. First, the original study by Garner et al. is replicated using the same methods as accurately as possible. Second, the methods of that study are reversed to determine likely predictors of suspect use of force. Finally, the Phoenix data are used in an analysis similar to a study of citizen compliance conducted by Mastrofski, Snipes, and Supina (1996).