When police kill /
"When Police Kill is the first comprehensive analysis of police use of lethal force in the United States. The first seven chapters of this volume provide a summary and analysis of the known facts about killings by police. Who dies from police gunfire? What circumstances provoke police to shoot?...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. The character and causes of police killings : The double transformation of police killings in America
- Killings by police: the numbers game
- Who dies, where and why?
- Only in America?: Police killings in other modern nations
- The problem of police safety
- Trends over time in killings of and by police in the United States
- Public costs and consequences
- Part II. Prevention and control of police killings : The missing links: reporting, documentation, and evaluation in a federal system
- Mission impossible?: The limits and potential of criminal law in police violence
- Cops and cameras
- The heart of the matter: governance and training for local policing
- American possibilities, American limits
- [Appendices] : 1. Elements of a national reporting system with required information and contacts for police shootings and injury reports from departments of police
- 2. Notes on killings of and by the police in Canada
- 3. The Guardian six-month sample