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• Police Killings Still Trending Upward post-Floyd
• Responding to Kang-Brown (again)
• Reflecting on My Promotion!
• 99 Problems but a Clean IV Ain’t One: Measuring and Studying Officer-Involved Shootings
• Staffing Levels and Response Times: Considering American-based Research
• Police In-Service Training Podcast - Episode 5
• Update on the Historical OIS Data I've Been Pulling Together
• The Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI): Lessons learned from a decade of SAKI evaluations
• ViCAP usage and viability for sexual assault investigations: Findings from a survey of SAKI sites
• Implementing the Connecticut Model for Researching and Addressing Disparities in Traffic Stops in Nebraska: Phase I
• Our Correction for "When Police Pull Back"
• Celebrating 10 Years of NIJ's LEADS Scholars Program
• A Modified Definition of Police Violence
• Unveiling the unseen: Documenting and analyzing nonfatal shootings by police
• Staffing levels are the most important factor influencing police response times
• When police pull back: Neighborhood-level effects of de-policing on violent and property crime
• Officer Diversity May Reduce Black Americans' Fear of the Police
• Police shootings in Canada: An empirical analysis and call for data
• Evidenced-Based Practices for Policing Domestic Violence
• Looking Back on My Peer Reviews for 2023
• Turnover in large US police agencies following the George Floyd Protests
• How Generalizable are Findings from Police Surveys? A Review of Multi-Agency Studies
• An experimental look at reasonable suspicion and police discretion
• Are fatal police shootings increasing?
• The Criminology Academy Podcast - Episode 68
• The ‘‘War on Cops,’’ Retaliatory Violence, and the Murder of George Floyd
• Where are they now?
• Looking Back on My Peer Reviews for 2022
• Creating a Professional Website
• American Society of Criminology - 2022 Meeting
• A Multi-Site Study of Firearms Displays by Police at Use of Force Incidents
• Crime Trends: Is this a Pattern or a Blip?
• Does Procedural Justice Reduce the Harmful Effects of Perceived Ineffectiveness on Police Legitimacy?
• Linking the Workforce Crisis, Crime, and Response Time
• Doing a Quick Literature Review
• An Evaluation of De-Escalation Training to Understand the Links between Training and Outcomes
• Minnesota Sexual Assault Kit Research Project
• Screening for Insider Threats in US Law Enforcement: A National Representative Sample of Department Policies and Practices
• Police Use of Deadly Force - What We Know and What We Need to Know
• Reflecting on My Decision to Post Slides for My Class
• COVID-19, George Floyd Protests, and a Violent Crime Spike: The Denver Experience
• Another Post about Police Shooting Data
• Leadership in Law Enforcement Podcast - Season 2 Ep. 8
• Policing Suspicion: Qualified Immunity and ‘‘Clearly Established’’ Standards of Proof
• Waiting on the Peer Review Process
• A National Analysis of Trauma Care Proximity and Firearm Assault Survival among U.S. Police
• The LEADS Academics Program: Building sustainable police-research partnerships in pursuit of evidence-based policing
• Consent Decrees and Constitutional Policing
• Reducing Crime Podcast - Episode 42
• Factors associated with police shooting mortality: A focus on race and a plea for more comprehensive data
• Weber, Legitimacy, and Police Empowerment: Experimental Results from a Survey of US Adults
• Factors associated with police shooting mortality: A focus on race and a plea for more comprehensive data
• Are Domestic Disturbances Really More Dangerous to Police? Findings from the 2016 National Incident Based Reporting System
• Comparing 911 and emergency hotline calls for domestic violence in seven cities: What happened when people started staying home due to COVID-19?
• Police Support for/Opposition to Various Reforms
• Elevated Police Turnover following the Summer of George Floyd Protests: A Synthetic Control Study
• Dismantling Racism, Sexism, and Inequities in Policing
• Understanding the Bounds of Legitimacy: Weber’s Facets of Legitimacy and the Police Empowerment Hypothesis
• Understanding Denver’s devastating rise in violent crime in 2020
• My Review History
• The immediate and long-term effects of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders on domestic violence calls for service across six U.S. jurisdictions
• Mandatory Sexual Assault Kit Testing Policies and Arrest Trends: A Natural Experiment
• Police Killings of Unarmed Black Americans: A Reassessment of Community Mental Health Spillover Effects
• Measurement matters: Attitudinal v. behavioral survey questions
• What Does the Public Want Police to Do During Pandemics? A National Experiment
• Review of ‘‘Cops, Cameras, and Crisis’’
• Policing, Police Reforms, and De-Funding Efforts
• Review of ‘‘Criminology Explains Police Violence’’
• #CrimComm for Early Career Researchers
• Eyewitness! Principled Policing
• Body-worn cameras and transparency: Experimental evidence of inconsistency in police executive decision-making
• NYC Shootings, Revisited
• On the challenges associated with the study of police use of deadly force in the United States: A response to Schwartz & Jahn
• Gun victimization in the line of duty: Fatal and non-fatal firearm assaults on police officers in the United States, 2014-2019
• Procedural Justice in Policing
• Good Cop, Bad Cop: Understanding Police Use of Force
• Defunding or disbanding the police is a dangerous idea if done hastily
• No Significant Decline in NYC Shootings Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic
• Gun Violence Against U.S. Police Officers: Insights from a New Dataset
• Understanding body-worn camera diffusion in U.S. policing
• Testing a Theoretical Model of Perceived Audience Legitimacy: The Neglected Linkage in the Dialogic Model of Police–community Relations
• Police Shooting Research and the Conditional Probability Mistake
• New preprint: Do police killings of unarmed persons really have spillover effects?
• Considering Violence Against Police by Citizen Race/Ethnicity to Contextualize Representation in Officer-Involved Shootings
• Now in print: Three experiments concerned with the Demeanor Hypothesis
• Predictors of Body-Worn Camera Diffusion amidst the Push for Greater Transparency in 21st Century Policing in the United States
• LEADS at IACP Conference in Chicago
• New research: Are domestic disturbances really more dangerous for responding officers?
• New research: Police perceptions of their audience legitimacy
• Crowdsourced police shooting data: What we know and what we're missing
• That new study in PNAS on fatal officer-involved shootings
• Compliance, Noncompliance, and the In-between: Causal Effects of Civilian Demeanor on Police Officers’ Cognitions and Emotions
• The problems with OIS data that only capture fatalities
• Validity of details in databases logging police killings
• Police Research, Officer Surveys, and Response Rates
• Analysis of 2018 Use of Deadly Force by the Phoenix Police Department
• Demeanor and Police Culture: Theorizing How Civilian Cooperation Influences Police Officers
• Disparity Does Not Mean Bias: Making Sense of Observed Racial Disparities in Fatal Officer-involved Shootings with Multiple Benchmarks
• The Las Vegas Mass Shooting: An Analysis of Blood Component Administration and Blood Bank Donations
• Police Officers’ Attitudes Toward Citizen Advisory Councils
• The Ecological Structuring of Police Officers’ Perceptions of Citizen Cooperation
• Testing a Social Schematic Model of Police Procedural Justice
• Management-level Officers’ Experiences with the Ferguson effect
• Domestic Disturbances and Fatal Police Shootings: An Analysis of the Washington Post’s Data
• Is the Number of Citizens Fatally Shot by Police Increasing in the Post-Ferguson Era?
• Police Managers’ Self-Control and Support for Organizational Justice
• Command-level Police Officers' Perceptions of the 'War on Cops' and De-policing
• Demeanor, Race, and Police Perceptions of Procedural Justice: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments
• Police Perceptions of Their External Legitimacy in High and Low Crime Areas of the Community
• Review of ‘‘When Police Kill’’
• American Policing in the Post-Ferguson Era
• A War on Cops? The Effects of Ferguson on the Number of U.S. Police Officers Murdered in the Line of Duty
• Do the Police Believe That Legitimacy Promotes Cooperation From the Public?
• Third-person Perceptions, Hostile Media Effects, and Policing: Developing a Theoretical Framework for Assessing the Ferguson Effect
• Police Officers’ Trust in Their Agency: Does Self-Legitimacy Protect Against Supervisor Procedural Injustice?
• A Bird’s Eye View of Civilians Killed by Police in 2015: Further Evidence of Implicit Bias
• The Impact of Negative Publicity on Police Self-legitimacy
• Sensitivity to the Ferguson Effect: The Role of Managerial Organizational Justice
• The Use of Social Media by Alleged Members of Mexican Cartels and Affiliated Drug Trafficking Organizations
• Is the Effect of Procedural Justice on Police Legitimacy Invariant? Testing the Generality of Procedural Justice and Competing Antecedents of Legitimacy
• Review of ‘‘Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship’’
• The Alleged Ferguson Effect and Police Willingness to Engage in Community Partnership
• Trust in the Police: The Influence of Procedural Justice and Perceived Collective Efficacy
• Running List of My Conference Presentations