Chris J. Vargo
Data through 2026-06-24 Release 0.1.0-status Primary tests 14 Last verified 2026-06-24

Boulder County Domestic Violence Enforcement Audit

The available public release cannot verify the asserted final gender-disparity findings.

The publication machinery is built from the verified release. The claim that all preregistered gender-disparity hypotheses were confirmed is not reproducible from the available artifacts.

This is a disclosure-safe status release, not a final disparity report.

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Hypotheses

14 preregistered hypotheses are unresolved because required case-level data or model artifacts are absent.

Public calls

Boulder Police public domestic-labeled calls had higher arrest-coded disposition rates than public civil-labeled calls in 2023 through partial 2026.

See evidence

Domestic-labeled calls had arrest-coded dispositions of 12.30% to 13.41%; civil-labeled calls had 0.28% to 1.30%. These are public call-disposition labels, not verified arrests or sex-disparity estimates.

Denominator: public screened Boulder PD call rows. Scope: Boulder Police Department, 2023-01-01 to 2026-06-24.

Cases and costs

Verified case records distinguish settlements, favorable outcomes, failed claims, and unverified leads. No express private-allegation falsity finding appears in the current seed set.

Boulder Police domestic-labeled public calls Arrest-coded disposition counts for domestic-labeled public call rows by year. Boulder Police domestic-labeled public calls 2023 112 2024 110 2025 101 2026 46

Public call-disposition table

year candidate family calls n arrest disposition n arrest disposition pct
2023 broader_validation_screen 9323 244 2.62
2023 civil_label 725 2 0.28
2023 domestic_label 835 112 13.41
2023 person_offense_screen 2819 62 2.20
2023 protection_order_label 272 17 6.25
2024 broader_validation_screen 8708 281 3.23
2024 civil_label 646 3 0.46
2024 domestic_label 845 110 13.02
2024 person_offense_screen 3104 53 1.71
2024 protection_order_label 280 22 7.86
2025 broader_validation_screen 8066 246 3.05
2025 civil_label 564 3 0.53
2025 domestic_label 808 101 12.50
2025 person_offense_screen 2673 61 2.28
2025 protection_order_label 267 27 10.11
2026 broader_validation_screen 3487 106 3.04
2026 civil_label 230 3 1.30
2026 domestic_label 374 46 12.30
2026 person_offense_screen 1225 28 2.29
2026 protection_order_label 110 9 8.18