A Shared Component Point Process Model for Urban Policing

Abstract

Newly available point-level datasets allow us to relate police use of force to other events describing police behavior. Current methods for relating two point processes typically rely on the spatial aggregation of one of the two point processes. We investigate new methods that build upon shared component models and case-control methods to retain the point-level nature of both point processes while characterizing the relationship between them. We find that the shared component approach is particularly useful in flexibly relating two point processes, and we illustrate this flexibility in simulated examples and an application to Chicago policing data.