Objectives: In October 2021, the American Psychological Association (APA) passed a
resolution addressing ways psychologists could work to dismantle systemic racism in …

When the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, set off riots, we
knew very little about the true number of people killed by American law enforcement. But …

Background: Little attention has been devoted to framing multiple continuous social
variables as a “mixture” for social epidemiologic analysis. We propose using the Bayesian …

Algorithmic risk assessment instruments (RAIs) increasingly inform decision-making in
criminal justice. RAIs largely rely on arrest records as a proxy for underlying crime …

Policies to make police forces more representative of communities have centered on race.
But race may crudely proxy views and lived experiences, undermining classic theories of …

Partisans are divided on policing policy, which may affect officer behavior. We merge rosters
from 99 of the 100 largest local US agencies-over one third of local law enforcement agents …

Public reporting programs such as the “See Something, Say Something” campaign are
important counterterrorism measures. Yet public knowledge about terrorism is low, and …

Constitutional accountability for police shootings is imposed in part through civil rights
lawsuits alleging Fourth Amendment violations, but little is known about how judges …

Geographic information systems enable the study of the spatial distribution of gun violence
in American cities. While sociodemographic characteristics and disinvestment patterns have …

Quantifying the causal effects of race is one of the more controversial and consequential
endeavors to have emerged from the causal revolution in the social sciences. The …