Institutional Brief

Principal verified finding: the available public release does not verify the asserted final gender-disparity findings.

Supporting public evidence: Boulder Police public call labels show domestic-labeled calls have higher arrest-coded dispositions than civil-labeled calls, but the public data lack sex/gender and probable-cause fields.

Case/proof pattern: Cronin is a settlement/favorable preliminary-hearing case, Higdon is a reversal/remand, and Pollack is a negative case where civil claims failed.

What the study does not prove

• Public aggregate data cannot test comparable-treatment hypotheses without case-level denominators.
• Settlements are not adjudicated damages.
• Favorable outcomes are not private-allegation falsity findings unless a high-proof source says so.

Questions for agencies

1. Will deidentified incident-level records be released for independent replication?
2. How are opposing complaints documented and separately evaluated?
3. Which investigative actions are subject to supervisor audit?
4. How are false-positive and false-negative decisions reviewed?
5. Can settlement and complaint registers be released in machine-readable form?