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Mar 24, 2023 · Causes of Law Enforcement Deaths. Updated March 24, 2023.
Deaths due to the use of lethal force by law enforcement are also referred to as legal intervention deaths, consistent with the ICD-10 category for deaths resulting from law enforcement action without regard to intent or legality.
- Sarah DeGue, Katherine A. Fowler, Cynthia Calkins
- 2016
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- Arrest-related deaths, by manner of death and weapon causing death, FY 2021
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Cause of death—A description of the specific factors leading to the termination of the biological functions that sustain life. Decedent—A person who died. Federal arrest-related death—A death that occurs when the event causing the death (e.g., gunshot wound, self-inflicted injury, cardiac arrest, fall from a height, or drowning) occurs while the de...
The Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA) requires the head of each federal law enforcement agency to submit to the U.S. attorney general information about the death of any person who is— detained, under arrest, or in the process of being arrested by a federal law enforcement oficer (or by a state or local law enforcement oficer while participating...
Determining which agency has custody may be complicated by dual law enforcement and detention functions and overlapping jurisdiction with state and local law enforcement authorities. Duplicate death records may occur due to overlapping correctional populations, jurisdictions, and functions (arrest and detention) within an agency. Agencies participa...
May 23, 2023 · Historical Data. U.S. law enforcement officer deaths 1786-2023, by cause. Published by. Aaron O'Neill , May 23, 2023. Since the 1780s, over 25,000 United States law enforcement officers have...
Jul 8, 2021 · Physician determination of cause and manner of death, defined criteria for case referral to the medicolegal death investigation system, an amendment process, and investigation collaboration are four core considerations for medicolegal death investigation system legal frameworks.
- Olga Joos, Srdjan Mrkic, Lynn Sferrazza
- 2021
Purpose –—Law enforcement is a dangerous profession not only due to assaults, accidents and homicides but also due to health risks. This study examined trends in the national frequency and rate of law enforcement jobrelated illness deaths in the United States over a 22-year period (1997–2018).
Oct 10, 2017 · We conducted 2 main analyses for this cross-sectional study: (1) an estimate of the total number of deaths and the proportion unreported by each source using capture–recapture analysis and (2) an assessment of correlates of underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths (demographic characteristics of the decedent, mechanism of death, death in...
