This article critically analyzed impactful policies and practices governing the policing of
Black men historically, and investigated the role these policies played in contributing to the …

Understanding the nature of officer-involved shootings is of critical interest to policy makers,
scholars, and the public. In the current article, we examined descriptive trends in officer …

This research focuses on the use of excessive and deadly force executed by law
enforcement agencies in the context of a racial bias operating throughout the United States …

Police use-of-force in general, and police use of deadly force in particular, has been at the
forefront of national media attention in recent years. Despite this visibility, scholarly attention …

Law Enforcement Shootings In The United States: The Factors And Potential Solutions Page 1
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA THESIS LAW ENFORCEMENT …

Past research on police shootings, when examining officer characteristics, has focused on
the officer's race, particularly when it is not the same as the race of the person shot. Data …

This article provides a thematic overview of a subset of controversial officer involved
shootings that have occurred in Denver, Colorado during a period of thirty years (1983 …

The Fourth Amendment authorizes the police to use force or deadly force. This statistical
case study examined police officers' demographics and their use of deadly force in Texas …

There has been a substantial body of research examining the reasons behind the police
officers' use of deadly force. Little research has been done to examine how race and …

This project was supported by cooperative agreement number 2012-CK-WX-K037 awarded
by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, US Department of Justice. The …