PLoS Medicine (Dec 2015)

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

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001915
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 12
p. e1001915

Abstract

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Nancy Krieger and colleagues argue that law-enforcement-related deaths in the United States should be treated as notifiable conditions, which would allow public health departments to report these data in real-time.