Gun violence

Some invited comments on an article by Julie Ward and team in AJPH

The police murder of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 and revived claims that public outcry over such high-profile police killings perpetuated a violent *war on cops*. Using data collected by the Gun Violence Archive …

We look at 7 years of firearm assaults on US police officers and find that proximity to trauma care is not significantly associated with odds of survival.

At the 2021 ASC Conference, I present findings from my latest paper on police shootings with John Shjarback.

We compile nonfatal police shooting data from four states and find that some racial disparities are larger than previously thought.

We argue that Denver’s 2020 crime spike was likely the result of a police legitimacy crisis.

My brief review of Philip Stinson’s new book in the *Criminology Explains* series.

In my last post, I pointed out that shootings weren’t occurring less frequently in NYC in 2020 than in prior years, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. I was also careful not to jump to the conclusion that shootings had increased significantly. That was June 3rd. Suffice it to say a lot has happened since then - including 624 additional shootings. Each of the last four years, NYC had fewer than 200 shootings from June to July.

I was invited to write a formal comment on a recent analysis of fatal police shootings in US MSAs.

We explore state-level variation and trends over time in gun assaults of police officers.