Perils of police action: a cautionary tale from US data sets

• Published in: Injury prevention Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 27 - 32
• Main Authors: Miller, Ted R, Lawrence, Bruce A, Carlson, Nancy N, Hendrie, Delia, Randall, Sean, Rockett, Ian R H, Spicer, Rebecca S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.02.2017
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Arrests; Cause of Death - trends; Census; Datasets; Datasets as Topic; Emergency medical services; Ethnic Groups - statistics & numerical data; Ethnicity; Female; Firearms; Health care; Hispanic people; Hospitals; Humans; Indigenous peoples; Injuries; Intervention; Jurisdiction; Law Enforcement; Male; Middle Aged; Minority & ethnic groups; Models, Theoretical; Murders & murder attempts; Police; Race; Racism - statistics & numerical data; Social Justice - statistics & numerical data; United States - epidemiology; Violence - statistics & numerical data; Vital statistics; Young Adult; United States > US
• ISSN: 1353-8047; 1475-5785
• DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2016-042023

ObjectiveTo count and characterise injuries resulting from legal intervention by US law enforcement personnel and injury ratios per 10 000 arrests or police stops, thus expanding discussion of excessive force by police beyond fatalities.DesignEcological.PopulationThose injured during US legal police...