Dean Knox is faculty fellow of analytics at Wharton and assistant professor of operations, information, and decisions at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He cofounded Research on Policing Reform and Accountability, an organization to improve measurement and quantitative analysis of law enforcement practices. He also serves as a statistical consultant for the Department of Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union. Knox’s 2021 Science paper, “The Role of Officer Race and Gender in Police-Civilian Interactions in Chicago,” uses detailed shift-level data to assess police diversification. In other work, he shows how common methods for analyzing stop records can dramatically underestimate discrimination in police violence.
His project, “Eliminating Statistical Barriers to Evidence-Based Policing Reforms,” aims to improve the study of policing by: (1) developing statistical methods for reconciling disparate, agency-specific datasets, and (2) developing video-analysis methods for extracting information from body-worn camera footage.
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