Millions of people have seen the video from North Charleston, South Carolina. Walter Scott
was running away from police officer Michael Slager when the officer shot him in the back …

This research is part of a larger study of police crime—that is, crime committed by nonfederal
sworn law enforcement officers with general powers of arrest—across the United States. In …

The police officer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager on a Brooklyn rooftop nearly
three years ago was suspended on Thursday for 30 days without pay by Police …

The plea to develop a national database on police use of (deadly) force or officerinvolved
shootings (0IS) is not new, and Klinger, Rosenfeld, Isom, and Deckard (2016, this issue) do …

Every day, thousands of police officers willingly put their lives in danger to uphold their
pledge. But in the years that have followed the infamous Rodney King trial and its terrible …

A teen-ager is fatally shot by a police officer; the police are accused of being bloodthirsty,
trigger-happy murderers; riots erupt. This, we are led to believe, is the way of things in …

There were 97 nonfederal sworn law enforcement officers with the general powers of arrest
(eg, police officers, deputy sheriffs, state troopers) arrested in years 2005-2018 for murder or …

District Attorney Tori Verber Salazar of San Joaquin County has asked this Stanford Law
School Criminal Justice Center policy team (SCJC) to assess the County's “officer-involved …

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 …

Michael Brown's 2014 death in Ferguson, Missouri, thrust police-officerinvolved homicides
into the popular consciousness. A series of subsequent officer-involved homicides has kept …