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Validating the National Violent Death Reporting System as a Source of Data on Fatal Shootings of Civilians by Law Enforcement Officers

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

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Race and the Police Use of Force Encounter in the United States

Date Published

January 2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

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The Las Vegas Body-Worn Camera Experiment

Date Published

November 2017

Publication Type

Press Release, Presentation, Online Only

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Impact of Agency Context, Policies, and Practices on Violence Against Police

Date Published

December 2009

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Justice--Lessons From Northern Ireland? (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 464-471, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., eds. -- See NCJ-207973)

Date Published

September 2004

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

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Police Shootings and the Prosecutor in Los Angeles County - An Evaluation of Operation Rollout

Date Published

1981

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

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Root Cause Analysis: A Tool To Promote Officer Safety and Reduce Officer Involved Shootings Over Time

Date Published

2017

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Program/Project Description, Issue Overview, Instructional Material

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Wearing Body Cameras Increases Assaults Against Officers and Does Not Reduce Police Use of Force: Results from a Global Multi-Site Experiment

Date Published

2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

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Use of Deadly Force by Police Officers - Final Report

Date Published

1983

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Determinants of Citizen Complaints Against Police Abuse of Power

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Effect of Less-Lethal Weapons on Injuries in Police Use-of-Force Events

Date Published

December 2009

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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Situational and Officer-Based Determinants of Police Coercion

Date Published

June 2002

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Police Officers' Perceptual Distortions During Lethal Force Situations: Informing the Reasonableness Standard

Date Published

February 2009

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Pepper Spray: A Safe and Reasonable Response to Suspect Verbal Resistance

Date Published

2000

Publication Type

Issue Overview

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Violent Police-citizen Encounter

Date Published

1980

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Characteristics Associated with the Prevalence and Severity of Force Used by the Police

Date Published

December 2002

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Measuring and Assessing Police Use of Force and Suspect Resistance

Date Published

1998

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Officer Behavior in Police-Citizen Encounters: A Descriptive Model and Implications for Less-Than-Lethal Alternatives

Date Published

September 1996

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

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Citizen Complaints as Threats to Police Legitimacy: The Role of Officers’ Occupational Attitudes

Date Published

February 2015

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

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Deadly Force in Law Enforcement

Date Published

1982

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Confronting Excessive Force in the Police Culture - Final Report: Phase Two Research on Excessive Force

Date Published

1997

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

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Toward the Uniform Reporting of Police Use of Force: Results of a National Survey

Date Published

1995

Publication Type

Survey

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Review of Split-Second Decisions - Shootings of and By Chicago Police

Date Published

1983

Publication Type

Book Review

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Neighborhood Context and Police Use of Force

Date Published

August 2003

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

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Police Officer Decisionmaking in Potentially Violent Confrontations

Date Published

1992

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

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