Officer-involved shootings

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

A list of the panels I'm involved in at the November 2022 meeting.

My talk provides a broad overview of the research on police use of deadly force – how often it happens, where it happens, and why it happens. I'll also point out the holes in our knowledge due to data constraints. I conclude with a discussion of …

I’ve been screaming this into the void on Twitter lately so I figured I’d pull all my thoughts together in a blog post. On January 12th, ABC News published a story claiming that fatal police shootings had declined 13% in 2021 “amid calls for reform on use of force.” The story also claimed that Florida saw the biggest decrease in shootings (from 93 to 44).1 At that time, The Washington Post’s (WAPO) database was showing 888 fatal police shootings.

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.

Body-worn cameras (BWC) have diffused rapidly throughout policing as a means of promoting transparency and accountability. Yet, whether to release BWC footage to the public remains largely up to the discretion of police executives, and we know little …

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.

I was a guest on this podcast where we discuss what science tells us about police use of force.