The police need public support and cooperation to be effective in controlling crime and
holding offenders accountable. In many disadvantaged communities of color, poor …

Despite their enormous potential impact on population health and health inequities, police
violence and use of excessive force have only recently been addressed from a public health …

Researchers often lack the necessary data to credibly estimate racial discrimination in
policing. In particular, police administrative records lack information on civilians police …

Abstract Nearly 1,000 officer-involved killings occur each year in the United States. This
article documents the large, racially disparate effects of these events on the educational and …

Health disparities disproportionately affect minority cultural groups (eg, Indigenous,
immigrant, refugee) worldwide; enduring across time, disease states, and risk factors despite …

Police officers in the United States have killed over 1000 civilians each year since 2013. The
constitutional landscape that regulates these encounters defaults to the judgments of the …

Since the professionalization of US‐based forensic anthropology in the 1970s, ancestry
estimation has been included as a standard part of the biological profile, because …

In post-Ferguson America, police departments are being challenged to implement evidence-
based changes in policies and training to reduce fatal police-citizen encounters. Of the litany …

This study analyzes 131 police–citizen interactions observed during Fall 2016 and coded
through systematic social observation. We assessed how often officers use de-escalation …

Stress researchers have emphasized the relationship between social stress and mental
health. However, research investigating police brutality as a stressor is scarce. The authors …