Prior research on the police decision to use deadly force has tended to neglect multivariate
relationships, particularly at the situational level. This paper makes use of data describing …

… sity of New York at Albany, available through University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor,
Michigan) [hereinafter cited as Shots Fired]; Fyfe, Toward A Typology of Police Shootings (…

Recent police shootings in which multiple officers fired numerous rounds at suspects have
led some observers to assert that such situations involve “contagious fire,” where an initial …

Objective To examine the impact of a novel firearm ‘pointing’ policy that requires officers to
document when they directly point their guns at citizens. Methods Sixteen years (2003–2018) …

Is there evidence of a Black–White disparity in death by police gunfire in the United States?
This is commonly answered by comparing the odds of being fatally shot for Blacks and …

May I ask what we are killing him for when he steals an automobile and runs off with it? Are
we killing him for stealing the automobile? If we catch him and try him, we throw every …

The literature on police use of deadly force1 has produced two major findings. First,
researchers report extreme variation in rates of police shooting among American jurisdictions. 2 …

Prior research has sought to identify appropriate mechanisms that can effectively control
police officers' decisions to use deadly force. Using data from Philadelphia for a period of more …

In response to Gabriel Schwartz and Jaquelyn Jahn’s descriptive study, “Mapping fatal police
violence across US metropolitan areas: Overall rates and racial/ethnic inequalities, 2013–…