RT Article
T1 Race and the Probability of Police Injury
JF Race and social problems
VO 13
IS 3
SP 215
OP 225
A1 Torres, Christopher E.
A2 D’Alessio, Stewart J.
A2 Stolzenberg, Lisa
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1768026130
AB Although research finds that police are more apt to employ force against black criminal suspects, empirical evidence for this relationship is derived entirely from analyses that only account for factors associated with the police-citizen encounter. If racial disparities exist in how citizens view the police prior to the citizen-police encounter, then any observed nexus between a criminal suspect’s race and police use of force will suffer omitted variable bias. We indirectly test this thesis by examining whether a black criminal suspect has an enhanced proclivity to injure either a black or white police officer during an assault. Results show that black suspects are no more likely than white suspects to injure black or white police officers.
K1 Victim Injury
K1 Police use of force
K1 Race
K1 Assaults of police officers
DO 10.1007/s12552-020-09300-5