The focus of this study is on media reporting of police involved shootings in Florida. Given that knowledge of killings committed by law enforcement are frequently restricted to what people get from news sources, it is important to investigate the way these messages are being communicated. An exploratory analysis of 199 articles and transcripts covering 86 cases relevant to deadly use of force by police officers as reported from 2013 to 2015 provided the primary data source. The analysis engaged a critical examination of media content and goodness of fit models to identify commonalities used by the media when reporting police involved shootings. The goal is to determine the potential impact of race, age and gender of a victim with regard to the media’s portrayal of events that result in lethal use of force by police. It is expected that exposure of the discoveries in this study will influence future law enforcement reporting systems for a more transparent relationship between police, news and the community. The demographics characteristics race, sex and age that were assessed in this study were not significantly associated with the length of media coverage on police involved shootings. However, further analysis using different modeling approaches are required for a better understanding as to whether a relationship exists.

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Submitted by Samira Bueno (samibueno@gmail.com) on 2018-04-27T14:40:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_SamiraBueno.pdf: 2979663 bytes, checksum: 1e5c569c56541617ea874a9e81c6789d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Pamela Beltran Tonsa (pamela.tonsa@fgv.br) on 2018-04-27T16:26:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_SamiraBueno.pdf: 2979663 bytes, checksum: 1e5c569c56541617ea874a9e81c6789d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzane Guimarães (suzane.guimaraes@fgv.br) on 2018-04-27T16:36:57Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_SamiraBueno.pdf: 2979663 bytes, checksum: 1e5c569c56541617ea874a9e81c6789d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-27T16:36:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE_SamiraBueno.pdf: 2979663 bytes, checksum: 1e5c569c56541617ea874a9e81c6789d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-21 / Esta tese teve por objetivo investigar a persistência da letalidade na ação da Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo (PMESP), não obstante a redução dos homicídios verificada entre os anos de 2000 e 2016. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa buscou-se identificar os mecanismos e estratégias que sustentam a prática letal dentro da organização. Em termos metodológicos foram mobilizadas estratégias que aliaram técnicas quantitativas e qualitativas de pesquisa, o que envolveu a análise de boletins de ocorrência e documentos oficiais relacionados às ocorrências de morte decorrente de intervenção policial/resistência seguida de morte, a realização de entrevistas com 16 policiais militares sentenciados por homicídio que cumpriam pena no Presídio Militar Romão Gomes e uma pesquisa observacional em perfis públicos de policiais militares no Facebook. Foi possível identificar três categorias empíricas que estariam diretamente associadas à conformação de um etos profissional pautado no modelo de enfrentamento violento ao criminoso e que influenciam na disposição homicida por parte do policial. Essas categorias convergem para o desenvolvimento de uma doutrina de uso da força letal, a instrumentalização de uma subcultura do universo policial que compreende a prática do homicídio como uma forma eficiente de controle do crime. Não se trata, portanto, de uma ação mobilizada ideologicamente no dia a dia, mas de uma estratégia funcional dentro de um frame em que vigora a crença genuína de que a missão da polícia é caçar bandidos. Deste modo, a disposição homicida não aparece como um desvio ou crime, mas como elemento central da própria atividade policial, que é cotidianamente retroalimentado pela corporação a partir de estratégias relacionadas à produção de estatísticas, à construção da imagem do sujeito criminoso e na interação com a sociedade através das mídias sociais. / This thesis aimed to investigate the persistence of the use of deadly force in the action of the Military Police of the State of São Paulo, despite the reduction of homicides verified between the years 2000 and 2016. The issue that determined the achievement of the research lies on the identification of the mechanisms and strategies that sustain lethal practice inside the organization. In methodological terms, strategies used for the research allied quantitative and qualitative research techniques and involved the analysis of occurrence reports and official documents related to the occurrences of death resulting from police intervention / resistance followed by death, interviews with 16 military police officers sentenced for homicide who were serving time at the Romão Gomes Military Prison, and a observational research of public profiles of military police officers on the social network Facebook. The research allowed the identification of four empirical categories that would be directed associated to the shaping of a professional ethos based on the model of violent confrontation of the criminals and that would influence the homicidal disposition. These categories converge to the development of a doctrine of the use of lethal force, the instrumentalisation of a subculture among the police universe which comprises the practice of murder as an efficient form of crime control. It is not, therefore, an action ideologically mobilized on a day-to-day basis, but a functional strategy within a frame in which there is a genuine belief that the police's mission is to hunt bandits. Therefore, the homicidal disposition does not appears as a deviation or crime, but as a central element of the police activity itself, which is daily fed back by the corporation and its members through strategies that involve the production of statistics, standardized discourses about the victims of their actions and in the interaction with society through social media.