Author ORCID Identifier
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-20-2020
Publication Title
Criminology & Public Policy
Volume
19
Issue
3
Abstract
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 U.S. police officers from 2014 to 2019 (N = 1,467). Results show that (a) most firearm assaults are nonfatal, (b) there is no compelling evidence that the national rate of firearm assault on police has substantially increased during the last 6 years, and (c) there is substantial state‐level variation in rates of firearm assault on police officers.
Policy Implications
GVA has decided strengths relative to existing data sources on police victimization and danger in policing. We consider the promises and pitfalls of this and other open‐source data sets in policing research and recommend that recent state‐level improvements in use‐of‐force data collection be replicated and expanded to include data on violence against police.
Recommended Citation
Sierra-Arévalo, Michael and Nix, Justin, "Gun Victimization in the Line of Duty: Fatal and Non-Fatal Firearm Assaults on Police Officers in the United States, 2014-2019" (2020). Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. 80.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/criminaljusticefacpub/80
Comments
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:
Sierra‐Arévalo, Michael, and Justin Nix. “Gun Victimization in the Line of Duty.” Criminology & Public Policy 19, no. 3 (2020): 1041–66. .
which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12507. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.