Background The burden of fatal police violence is an urgent public health crisis in the USA.
Mounting evidence shows that deaths at the hands of the police disproportionately impact …

INTRODUCTION More than one-fourth of the world's population lives in conditions of
insecurity because of high levels of crime and violence, especially in the Global South …

Existing research shows that distrust of the police is widespread and consequential for
public safety. However, there is a shortage of interventions that demonstrably reduce …

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

Despite decades of declining crime rates, longstanding tensions between police and the
public continue to frustrate the formation of cooperative relationships necessary for the …

The mission of policing is “to protect and serve,” but recent events suggest that many
Americans, and especially Black Americans, do not feel protected from the police …

Drug-law enforcement constitutes a structural determinant of health among people who
inject drugs (PWID). Street encounters between police and PWID (eg, syringe confiscation …

What are the political consequences of militarizing law enforcement? Across the world, law
enforcement has become increasingly militarized over the last three decades, with civilian …

Research Summary We administered a survey experiment to a national sample of 1068 US
adults in April 2020 to determine the factors that shape support for various policing tactics in …

What factors shape public opinion about government solutions to address police violence?
We address this question by conducting a survey in which respondents express their …