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...
Background Several past studies have found that media reports of suicides and homicides appear to subsequently increase the incidence of similar events in the community, apparently due to the coverage planting the seeds of ideation in at-risk individuals to commit...
