Policing the pandemic: estimating spatial and racialized inequities in New York City police enforcement of COVID-19 mandates

Background: Recent studies in police officers and firefighters have shown that physically taxing and psychologically stressful occupations may increase death from coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of this study was to determine if there is an increased prevalence of CAD among members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD). Methods: A total of 2,068 NYPD police officers and detectives underwent electron beam computed tomography for quantitation of coronary artery calcium (CAC) using the Agatston scoring method. The CAC score is known to correlate with the extent and severity of CAD and is predictive of adverse cardiovascular events. The CAC scores were compared with a gender- and age-specific database developed by Hoff et al (also known as the Kondos database). Patients with CAC scores > 400 and those whose scores fall within the upper quartile for gender and age are generally considered to be at increased risk of adverse events. Results: Participants’ mean age was 42 ± 6 years and 86% were male. More than 50% of males < 65 and females < 60 years of age had scores below the 50 th percentile for their age group (Tables ). A subset of 75 individuals (mean age 41 ± 6; 88% male) with known early exposure to the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse were evaluated; they did not have increased CAC scores (data not shown). Conclusion: There is not an increased prevalence of CAD among members of the NYPD compared to the general population as assessed with CAC quantitation. Early exposure to the WTC collapse does not appear to increase the risk of premature CAD at five years.

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Evaluation of the New York City Police Cadet Corps, 1986-1989

ICPSR Data Holdings ◽

10.3886/icpsr09980 ◽

1995 ◽

Author(s):

Antony Pate ◽

Edwin E. Hamilton

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

City Police

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The New York City Police Department, its Crime Control Strategies and Organizational Changes, 1970-2009

Understanding New York’s Crime Drop ◽

10.4324/9781003038306-5 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 74-95

Author(s):

Michael D. White

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Crime Control ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Police Department ◽

Organizational Changes ◽

City Police

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Parenting the Dispossessed

Race and Justice ◽

10.1177/2153368717724507 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 71-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jan Haldipur

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Police Department ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

High Crime ◽

Police Activity ◽

City Police

In the early 2000s, the New York City Police Department implemented policies that called for the aggressive use of “Stop, Question, and Frisk,” in neighborhoods deemed “high crime.” Drawing from approximately 3 years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around three precincts in the southwest Bronx, the current research reveals how parenting youth who live in such neighborhoods is impacted by police activity.

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Compstat: The Manager's Perspective

International Journal of Police Science & Management ◽

10.1350/ijps.2005.7.3.187 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 187-196 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Gennaro F. Vito ◽

William F. Walsh ◽

Julie Kunselman

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

Content Analysis ◽

York City ◽

Police Department ◽

Written Comments ◽

University Of Louisville ◽

The Usa ◽

The University ◽

City Police

Originally established by Commissioner William Bratton and his colleagues in the New York City Police Department, Compstat has emerged as a new organisational paradigm in policing. This paper presents data drawn from the written views of police managers from across the USA. The respondents were attending the Administrative Officer's Course at the Southern Police Institute of the University of Louisville, Kentucky. During the course of their studies, they read several works on Compstat, including Silverman's (1999) work, NYPD Battles Crime. Content analysis of their written comments reveals the strengths and weaknesses that they associate with the Compstat model.

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