Objective To examine the impact of a novel firearm ‘pointing’ policy that requires officers to document when they directly point their guns at citizens. Methods Sixteen years (2003–2018) of narrative officer-involved shooting (OIS) reports from the Dallas...
Prior deadly force research has sought to identify appropriate mechanisms that can effectively control police officers’ decisions to use deadly force. However, the relative impact of external discretion control policies on police shooting behavior remains largely...
Deadly force research typically does not distinguish between shootings by on-duty and off-duty police. This article uses Philadelphia police shooting data from two time periods (1970-1978 and 1987-1992) and a unique quasi-experimental design to examine the comparative...
The last two years have been marked by the widely publicised police killings of unarmed black citizens, including the summer 2014 deaths of Eric Garner in New York City and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. According to the website mappingpoliceviolence.org, over...
