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Mar 9, 2022 · As the head of the project has written, “We try to document all deaths that happen when police are present or that are caused by police: on-duty, off-duty, criminal, line-of-duty, local, federal, intentional, accidental—all of them.” This includes suicides and stabbings in the presence of police, car crashes and drownings resulting from ...
Jun 10, 2024 · Based on Professor Stinson’s data on police crimes — only a tiny minority, less than 2% of officers who killed civilians in the line of duty, were charged with a crime. The vast majority of officers who killed people while on duty, 98.2%, were not charged with a crime.
Jan 1, 2020 · The current effort extends prior research in three ways. First, we examine citizen violence directed toward law enforcement by race/ethnicity as the baseline for comparison. Second, we analyze datasets that include officer-involved shootings that did not result in the death of a citizen.
- John A. Shjarback, Justin Nix
- 2020
Jan 1, 2020 · Police use of deadly force, by definition, is “any physical force that is capable of or likely to kill; it does not always kill” (Fyfe, 1978, pg. 32). This includes all occasions where officers discharge their firearms, including when their bullets non-fatally wound citizens, or miss citizens altogether. The difference in these three ...
- John A. Shjarback, Justin Nix
- 2020
Nov 16, 2023 · We examine all local, county, state, and federal officer line-of-duty deaths from 1970–2021 using data from the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP). We examine long-term trends and conduct a decade-by-decade analysis of those deaths.
Sep 30, 2021 · Police killings in America have been undercounted by more than half over the past four decades, according to a new study that raises pointed questions about racial bias among medical examiners...
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The LEOKA database contains information about officers killed in the line of duty. Variables include gender, age, rank, height, race, years of law enforcement experience, amount of training, location of injury, etc.
