Race

A discussion about the function of police, the role of police oversight, and various reforms that have been suggested.

A discussion about reimagining policing in America.

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

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

We examine police perceptions of their legitimacy in the eyes of the public, using survey data from two police samples.

Yesterday, Andy Wheeler posted a summary of the problems with recent studies about officer-involved shootings, including one my colleagues and I published in February 2017. As usual, Andy’s criticisms were thoughtful and spot on. And I hope I can take him up on that conference beer soon, even though he’s at a new job. That said, I do want to push back just a little about the motivation for our paper.

Correcting 91 misclassified incidents renders Bor et al.'s (2018) key finding non-significant.

We use data on violence against police as a benchmark to understand racial disparities in OIS

Forthcoming at _JRCD_.

At the 2019 ASA Conference, Geoff Alpert and I discuss how misleading analyses of strictly fatal OIS can be.