Disparities in Policing From Theory to Practice

• Published in: American journal of public health (1971) Vol. 114; no. 4; pp. 384 - 386
• Main Author: Zare, Hossein
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Public Health Association 01.04.2024
• Subjects: Accountability; Aggression; Black people; Community; Conflict theory; Conflicts of interest; Crime; Datasets; Deadly force; Discrimination; Epidemiology; Ethnic factors; Ethnic groups; Ethnic relations; Ethnicity; Gun violence; Hate crimes; Hispanic Americans; Humans; Hypotheses; Inequality; Injury/Emergency Care/Violence; Law Enforcement; Low income groups; Marginality; Minority & ethnic groups; Minority groups; Murders & murder attempts; Neighborhoods; Offenses; Opinions, Ideas, & Practice; Oppression; Police; Police brutality; Police departments; Police shootings; Population; Poverty; Power structure; Public health; Race; Race/Ethnicity; Racial differences; Residential segregation; Social control; State police; Threats; Violence; Violent crime; White people; United States > US

In recent years, high-profile police use-of-force encounters with individuals of color (e.g., George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky; Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin) have increased the long-standing scrutiny of law enforcement actions and deepened the mistr...