RT Article
T1 Firearm Violence Directed at Police
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 62
IS 4
SP 501
OP 524
A1 Bierie, David M.
A2 Detar, Paul J.
A2 Craun, Sarah W.
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1576526151
AB Firearm violence directed at law enforcement officers has become an increasingly prominent topic among policy makers, the press, and academics. This prominence is driven in part by recent growth in the number of officers killed or injured by gunfire. Although researchers have studied less serious forms of resisting arrest, little is known about risk factors for firearm violence directed at police. This study drew on the National Incident-Based Reporting System to compare all incidents in which police officers were the victim of firearm violence with a random sample of police encounters without this form of aggression. A variety of offender and situational factors identified in prior literature on resisting arrest, as well as new constructs introduced here, were compared between these two groups within a multivariate logistic regression framework. The data showed several important patterns regarding risk to officers, some of which reverse or refine earlier work produced from studies of less serious forms of resistance.
K1 Policing
K1 Firearms
K1 Resisting arrest
K1 NIBRS
K1 Polizei
K1 Gewalt
K1 Schußwaffen
K1 Waffengewalt
DO 10.1177/0011128713498330