First, it uses a novel approach to estimate how many police shootings are "tragic mistakes"鈥攊.e. killings of individuals that posed no threat. The approach is novel because it estimates based on the proportion of police killed by civilians versus civilians killed by police. This allows us ...
Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting and the response have reignited concerns about racial profiling, police brutality and police militarization. The incident has also drawn attention to a remarkable lack of knowledge about a seemingly basic fact: how often people are killed by the po...
Unintentional shootingshappen most often when children are at home, according to the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety. The organization reviewed data from 2015 to 2022 and found that the highest number of unintentional child shootings per day occurred in July. "We know that the vital organs of ...
"I think anywhere, property crime is always more prevalent than actual physical harm to anyone no matter where they are," says James Mendonca, chief of campus police and director of security and safety atRhode Island College. "We can't prevent crimes from occurring, but we can do things to...
After Ferguson Shootings, How Do Police Proceed without Fear?The shots ring out without warning, and, suddenly, two policeofficers are down. Pandemonium...Jonsson, Patrik
Street shootings. Rising middle class anxiety. Angry underclass indictments of democracy as a mere façade for plutocracy. Populism. Demagogues. Resurgent bigotry. Religious intolerance. Media untruths. The extinction of species. Weird weather. Crop failures and famine. Talk of the decline of the...
More from CBS News Chicago weekend shootings leave 4 killed, 9 wounded, according to police Police release video from fatal shooting in Heart of Chicago neighborhood Burglary suspect shot, killed by police on Chicago's West Side, CPD says Second man charged in 2024 shooting deaths of two...
In 2015, the Washington Post reported 987 fatal shootings by on-duty officers in their database (Lowery, 2016). These high numbers along with the role of media, have caused officers to be scrutinized more than ever. Many of the largest police departments were asked to implement new training...
Ryan's health care bill struggle, why NAFTA's not a big deal, and how to reduce fatal police shootings: roundup of US academic political blogging for 11 –... USAPP Managing Editor, Chris Gilson looks at the best of the week's political blogging from academics and think-tanks. Don't ...
Shootings got labeled as suicides. Autopsies were often skipped, burials rushed and death certificates falsified. Such was the case with his grandmother, whose mysterious death inspired his book. Estimates vary on how many Osage people were killed during what came to be called the “Reign of ...