Using Public Health Databases to Analyze Legal Intervention Shootings, United States, 2006-2017 (ICPSR 37339)
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David Hemenway, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
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This project used national databases to describe the incidence and distribution of fatal and nonfatal police shootings and to develop an empirically based typology of legal intervention homicides. To accomplish this, the study team evaluated the comprehensiveness of the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) for fatal police shootings along with various open-source databases. The study team also explained the variation across states in fatal police shootings using a validated national database (Washington Post "Fatal Force Database") and is currently examining the variation in fatal police shooting across urban vs. rural areas.
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The purpose of this study was to use national databases to describe the incidence and distribution of fatal and nonfatal police shootings and to develop an empirically based typology of legal intervention homicides.
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Population shot and killed, or wounded, by law enforcement officers in the USA.
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