Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive literature review of prior
empirical studies that have examined early intervention (EI) systems or programs in policing …

Research Summary Despite frequent calls for national data on police use of force, the
literature is dominated by unrepresentative samples from a small number of primarily urban …

Research Summary According to TASER International, nearly 10,000 police departments in
the United States have deployed the TASER as a less lethal force alternative in some …

Federal government databases recording officer-involved shooting fatalities are incomplete
and unreliable. Voluntary reporting to the Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR), the …

Police sexual misconduct is often considered a hidden crime that routinely goes unreported.
The current study provides empirical data on cases of sex-related police crime at law …

This research note empirically assessed similarities and differences among three open-
source data sets from 2015-2019. Fatal police shooting incidents were compared across …

The police must on occasion use physical force and weapons in order to apprehend and
control subjects and fulfil the police function. It is inevitable that some of these interactions …

" Recommendation 4.5: The Federal Bureau of Investigation should be directed to collect,
compile and make available publicly statistics and information regarding assaults on and …

National data on citizen complaints about police use of force were collected by the Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS) in 2003 and 2007. These data are a critical component of the …

Drugs, bribes, falsifying evidence, unjustified force and kickbacks: there are many
opportunities for cops to act like criminals. Jammed Up is the definitive study of the nature …