The prevalence of fatal police shootings by U.S. police, 2015–2016: Patterns and answers from a new data set

Jon M. Shane, Brian Lawton and Zoë Swenson

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2017, vol. 52, issue C, 101-111

Abstract: Previous studies on police use of fatal force in the United States are limited to specific cities. This is the first analysis of its type to rely on incident-level national data and to establish state-level base rates for police shooting fatalities.

Keywords: Police use of force; Washington Post; Incident-level data; Officer-involved shootings; Police-involved fatalities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.05.001

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