The life-saving benefits of body armor have been well-documented, and law enforcement
agency (LEA) body armor wear requirements have been cited by police officers as one of …

The article first reviews the history of body-armor development, including how the US Justice
Department's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the International Association of Chiefs of …

Abstract Law Enforcement Officers as Victims of Felonious Killings and Assaults: An Analysis
of the Predictors of Lethality and the Likelihood of Officer Assault or Death. Gabriella …

USE OF FORCE Conversations with various law enforcement officers indicated that
numerous changes in use-of-force policies took place during the past 10 years. No …

Methods Retrospective analysis was performed of open-source de-identified Federal
Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reporting Law Enforcement Officers Killed and …

The purpose of this article was to reassess patterns previously identified in the Federal
Bureau of Investigation's Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) data …

Introduction: Despite being deployed to all frontline New Zealand Police in 2007, there are
few studies that have investigated the influence of Stab Resistant Body Armour SRBA) and …

Historically, police use of deadly force has attracted a great deal of attention and this is
reflected in the literature of law enforcement. The attention given to the topic of deadly force …

With over 60 million encounters between police officers and citizens in any given year
(Harrell & Davis, 2020), there is ample opportunity for these interactions to turn violent and …

This study demonstrates that much progress has been made in the last decade in terms of
law enforcement agencies providing body armor to officers, developing policies to require …