@article{ref1,
title="Gunshot-victim cooperation with police investigations: results from the Chicago  Inmate Survey",
journal="Preventive medicine",
year="2020",
author="White, Kailey and Cook, Philip J. and Pollack, Harold A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Just one in ten nonfatal shootings in Chicago lead to an arrest. Unlike in fatal  cases, gunshot victims who survive can often provide information of use in the  police investigation. Nonetheless, nonfatal shooting cases in Chicago and elsewhere  have much lower arrest rates than fatal cases, in part because most victims do not  cooperate. We use data from the Chicago Inmate Survey (CIS) to analyze the potential  value that gunshot-victim cooperation could have for increasing arrest rates. Half  of CIS respondents reported they had been shot before. Very few cooperated with  police investigations of these shooting, although at least half of them could have  provided useful information. In fact, victims were more likely to speak with the  police when they did not have any information on their shooter. Respondents  explained their choice not to cooperate by reference to &quot;street codes&quot; against  snitching, mistrust of the police, and the desire to retaliate against the shooter  personally. If more shooting victims could be persuaded to cooperate, the police  would solve more cases and hence be more effective in curtailing gun violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-7435",
doi="10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106381",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2020.106381"
}