Research Summary Using open‐source data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), we
analyze national‐and state‐level trends in fatal and nonfatal firearm assaults of US police …

Importance Firearm injury is a major public health burden in the US, and yet there is no
single, validated national data source to study community firearm violence, including firearm …

The current paper provides a critical assessment of the available data on police use of
deadly force, including the lack of official, national-level measures, and the recent scholarly …

Purpose Previous studies on police use of fatal force in the United States are limited to
specific cities. This is the first analysis of its type to rely on incident-level national data and to …

Background The majority of gun violence in the United States does not result in physical
injury and therefore cannot be completely measured using hospital data. To measure the full …

Background Fatal and nonfatal shootings by police are a public health issue that warrants
additional research. Prior research has documented associations between fatal shootings …

The USA has very high rates of homicide by police compared to other high-income
countries, with approximately 1000 civilians killed annually. The overwhelming majority of …

Abstract In the United States, firearm homicides disproportionately occur in urban areas. We
examine whether the same is true for fatal police shootings. We use data on fatal police …

We analyzed police shootings in Canada (except Québec) between 2017 and 2019.
Drawing upon media reports and information provided by police oversight agencies, we …

Objectives. To describe all-outcome injurious shootings by police and compare
characteristics of fatal versus nonfatal injurious shootings nationally. Methods. From July …