New technological innovations have been developed to prevent crime and to improve the
performance of the police, but we know remarkably little about how and why certain …

Background and Purpose Evidence is lacking with regard to the most suitable instrument for
measuring quality of life (QOL) in patients with schizophrenia. The researchers carried out a …

Police agencies in the US are currently facing a major legitimacy crisis resulting from a spate
of high-profile use of force incidents, many involving minority citizens. Recent headlines …

Research Summary A robust body of research findings has established that policing is a
dangerous profession. Few scholars, however, have investigated the full picture of the …

Research Summary Using open‐source data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), we
analyze national‐and state‐level trends in fatal and nonfatal firearm assaults of US police …

This study examined agency-level factors that impact the level of violence against police.
The independent variables represented both agency context (eg, violent crime rate …

Conflict theories suggest that groups lacking access to the political process, such as racial
minorities, may resort to violence to achieve their goals and protest against injustice …

Largely paralleling research on general homicides, research on the structural covariates of
murders of police has been carried out at various levels of areal aggregation. However …

Some proponents of the “war on cops” thesis have suggested that the Black Lives Matter
(BLM) movement encourages people to murder police officers and is responsible for many …

Over the last few years, there has been a series of high-profile, premeditated ambush
attacks on police, which has led some to conclude there is a “war on cops.” Unfortunately …