Weapons
Second National Ballistics Imaging Comparison (NBIC-2)
Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America - An Annotated Bibliography
Making Corrections Safer With Technology
Less Lethal Force Policy and Police Officer Perceptions: A Multisite Examination
Trace Metal Detection Techniques in Law Enforcement
Less Lethal Weapons for Law Enforcement: A Performance-Based Analysis
Public Safety Technology In the News
A TASER Conducted Electrical Weapon With Cardiac Biomonitoring Capability: Proof of Concept and Initial Human Trial
Weapons Effects and Individual Intent To Do Harm: Influences on the Escalation of Violence
Skin Penetration Assessment of Less Lethal Kinetic Energy Munitions
Utilizing a Magnetic Locator To Search for Buried Firearms and Miscellaneous Weapons at a Controlled Research Site
Examining Less Lethal Force Policy and the Force Continuum: Results From a National Use-of-Force Study
'Physics' in Corrections
Effects of Gun Seizures on Gun Violence: "Hot Spots" Patrol in Kansas City
Study Compares Gun Barrels and Bullets
What Every Public Safety Officer Should Know About Radiation and Radioactive Materials
Examining Cognitive Functioning Following TASER Exposure: A Randomized Controlled Trial
TECHBeat, October 2017
TECHBeat, July/August 2018
Advancing Mass Shootings Research To Inform Practice
The Impact of Constitutional Carry Legislation on Urban Violence, Arrests, and Police-Citizen Encounters
Conducted Energy Devices: Policies on Use Evolve To Reflect Research and Field Deployment Experience
Police-on-Police Shootings and the Puzzle of Unconscious Racial Bias
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.
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Are CEDs Safe and Effective?
Thousands of law enforcement agencies throughout the United States have adopted conducted energy devices (CEDs) as a safe method to subdue individuals, but are these devices really safe? What policies should agencies adopt to ensure the proper use of this technology? This NIJ Conference Panel discusses the physiological effects of electrical current in the human body caused by CEDs, as well as how this technology can reduce injuries to officers and suspects when appropriate policies and training are followed.