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Minority police

Law Enforcement Organization (LEO) Survey

NCJ Number
253935
Date Published
October 2011
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Publication Type
Survey, Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Police-on-Police Shootings and the Puzzle of Unconscious Racial Bias

June 2010

Professor Christopher Stone recently completed a study of police-on-police shootings as part of a task force he chaired in New York State. He reported on his findings and recommendations, exploring the role of race in policing decisions, methods to improve training and tactics to defuse police-on-police confrontations before they become fatal, and methods to improve the investigations of such shootings.