RT Article
T1 Is the number of citizens fatally shot by police increasing in the Post-Ferguson era?
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 64
IS 3
SP 398
OP 420
A1 Campbell, Bradley A.
A2 Nix, Justin
A2 Maquire, Edward R.
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/157807469X
AB This study examines whether the number of citizens fatally shot by police in the United States has changed significantly since the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Using longitudinal data compiled by killedbypolice.net, we use an interrupted time-series design to test the effect of events in Ferguson on fatal shootings by police. Our analyses reveal that the number of citizens killed by police is temporally unstable, exhibiting random short-term fluctuations that are often misinterpreted as evidence of substantively meaningful trends. However, after testing a variety of model specifications, we find no evidence that the number of fatal police shootings either increased or decreased post-Ferguson. Claims to the contrary are based on weak analyses of short-term trends.
K1 Ferguson Effect
K1 Police shootings
K1 Police use of force
K1 Interrupted time-series analysis
DO 10.1177/0011128716686343