Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Kiang, Mathew V ^a   Feldman, Justin ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DATA PROCESSING; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEDICAL SERVICE; MENTAL HEALTH; POLICE; POLICE DEATH; POLICE VIOLENCE; POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; WEAPON; HOMICIDE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; POLICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84953790868     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001915     Document Type: Article

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