RT Article
T1 Assessing dangerousness in policing: an analysis of officer deaths in the United States, 1970–2016
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 18
IS 1
SP 11
OP 35
A1 White, Michael D. 1951-
A2 Dario, Lisa M.
A2 Shjarback, John A.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/166567959X
AB A robust body of research findings has established that policing is a dangerous profession. Few scholars, however, have investigated the full picture of the hazards in policing, which includes deaths occurring in both felonious and nonfelonious circumstances. In this study, we examine nearly 50 years of all police officer line‐of‐duty deaths (1970–2016) using data from the Officer Down Memorial Page. We focus on long‐term trends in felonious and nonfelonious deaths annually, as well as on trends in incident‐level characteristics. We also employ interrupted time‐series analysis (ARIMA) to test the “war on cops” thesis post–Ferguson.
K1 Line of duty death
K1 Police officer deaths
K1 Violence against police
K1 Gewalt gegen Polizeibeamte
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12408