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15 - What Drives Variation in Killings by Urban Police in the United States: Two Empirical Puzzles

from Part IV - Police Force and Police Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2019

By
Franklin E. Zimring
Edited by
Tamara Rice Lave  and
Eric J. Miller
Tamara Rice Lave
Affiliation:
University of Miami School of Law
Eric J. Miller
Affiliation:
Loyola School of Law, Los Angeles
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Summary

The explosion of interest and concern about police use of lethal force that followed the shooting and protests in Ferguson, Missouri was a surprise to the policy community and also to empirical criminology..

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The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States , pp. 296 - 306
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Fyfe, James. 1982. “Blind Justice: Police Shootings in Memphis,” 73 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 707.Google Scholar
Geller, William A. and Scott, Michael S.. 1992. Deadly Force: What We Know: A Practitioner’s Desk Reference on Police-Involved Shootings (Washington, DC: Police Executive Research Forum).Google Scholar
Tennenbaum, Abraham. 1994. “The Influence of the Garner Decision on Police Use of Deadly Force,” 85 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 241.Google Scholar
U.S. Census, Top 50 Cities in 2013, available at <www.census.gov>..>Google Scholar
U.S. Department of Justice, Uniform Crime Reports.Google Scholar
Zimring, Franklin E. and Arsiniega, Brittany. 2015. “Trends in Killings of and by Police: A Preliminary Analysis,” 13:1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 247–264.Google Scholar
Zimring, Franklin E. 2016. “Can Foreign Experience Inform U.S. Policy on Killings of and by Police?” 10:1 Harvard Law and Policy Review 43–58.Google Scholar
Zimring, Franklin E. 2017. When Police Kill (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).Google Scholar
Fyfe, James. 1982. “Blind Justice: Police Shootings in Memphis,” 73 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 707.Google Scholar
Geller, William A. and Scott, Michael S.. 1992. Deadly Force: What We Know: A Practitioner’s Desk Reference on Police-Involved Shootings (Washington, DC: Police Executive Research Forum).Google Scholar
Tennenbaum, Abraham. 1994. “The Influence of the Garner Decision on Police Use of Deadly Force,” 85 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 241.Google Scholar
U.S. Census, Top 50 Cities in 2013, available at <www.census.gov>..>Google Scholar
U.S. Department of Justice, Uniform Crime Reports.Google Scholar
Zimring, Franklin E. and Arsiniega, Brittany. 2015. “Trends in Killings of and by Police: A Preliminary Analysis,” 13:1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 247–264.Google Scholar
Zimring, Franklin E. 2016. “Can Foreign Experience Inform U.S. Policy on Killings of and by Police?” 10:1 Harvard Law and Policy Review 43–58.Google Scholar
Zimring, Franklin E. 2017. When Police Kill (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).Google Scholar

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Fyfe, James. 1982. “Blind Justice: Police Shootings in Memphis,” 73 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 707.Google Scholar
Geller, William A. and Scott, Michael S.. 1992. Deadly Force: What We Know: A Practitioner’s Desk Reference on Police-Involved Shootings (Washington, DC: Police Executive Research Forum).Google Scholar
Tennenbaum, Abraham. 1994. “The Influence of the Garner Decision on Police Use of Deadly Force,” 85 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 241.Google Scholar
U.S. Census, Top 50 Cities in 2013, available at <www.census.gov>..>Google Scholar
U.S. Department of Justice, Uniform Crime Reports.Google Scholar
Zimring, Franklin E. and Arsiniega, Brittany. 2015. “Trends in Killings of and by Police: A Preliminary Analysis,” 13:1 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 247–264.Google Scholar
Zimring, Franklin E. 2016. “Can Foreign Experience Inform U.S. Policy on Killings of and by Police?” 10:1 Harvard Law and Policy Review 43–58.Google Scholar
Zimring, Franklin E. 2017. When Police Kill (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press).Google Scholar

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