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Use of Force by Police: Overview of National and Local Data
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Use of Force by Police: Overview of National and Local Data
Publication year:
1999
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Approximately 1% of those people having a face-to-face contact with police were subjected to use of force. Roughly 60% of use of force incidents involved only holding. This document is comprised of the following: "What We Know About Police Use of Force" by Kenneth Adams; "Revising and Fielding the Police-Public Contact Survey" by Lawrence A. Greenfield, Patrick A. Langan, and Steven K. Smith; "IACP National Database Project on Police Use of Force" by Mark A. Henriquez; "Measuring the Amount of Force Used By and Against the Police in Six Jurisdictions" by Joel H. Garner and Christopher D. Maxwell; "The Force Factor: Measuring and Assessing Police Use of Force and Suspect Resistance" by Geoffrey P. Alpert and Roger G. Dunham; and "A Research Agenda on Police Use of Force" by Kenneth Adams.