Our understanding of violence against officers (VAO), including officer-involved shootings
(OIS), is limited. To address these limitations, the authors conducted a nationally …

Several high-profile officer involved shootings (OIS) in 2014 and 2015 stimulated a national
debate and exposed the absence of reliable national data on police use of deadly force. 1 …

Although researchers and the public intuitively know that the lack of available data on the
topic of officer-involved shootings (OIS) is a problem, the scope of the problem has not been …

In 2016, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation** awarded the Police Foundation funding to
collect and analyze detailed information on officer-involved shooting (OIS) incidents …

Purpose. Law enforcement officer-involved shootings are uncommon events in the context of
encounters with the public, but extreme situations which have the potential to pose immense …

Purpose Violence against the police represents an ongoing and serious problem in the
USA. In 2014, over 48,000 law enforcement officers assaulted while on duty. Although over …

Our biggest challenge (and responsibility to the agencies involved) was making sure we
were taking an evidence-based approach to building an OIS database that could provide for …

The assault of law enforcement officers is an important but understudied topic. To better
understand this form of violence, this study drew on the National Incident–Based Reporting …

Background Police violence is increasingly recognized as an urgent public health problem.
Basic questions about police violence, however, remain unanswered, including which types …

This essay responds to an article by Williams, Bowman, and Jung concerning fatal officer-
involved shootings (OISs) and Federal and state databases that appeared in the Criminal …