policing

Dr. Hashimi: Officer Networks and Firearm Behaviors: Assessing the Social Transmission of Weapon-Use

A brief rundown of Dr. Hashimi's forthcoming JQC paper.

Elevated Police Turnover following the Summer of George Floyd Protests: A Synthetic Control Study

**Research summary**: Several of the largest U.S. police departments reported a sharp increase in officer resignations following massive public protests directed at policing in the summer of 2020. Yet, to date, no study has rigorously assessed the …

Gun victimization in the line of duty: Fatal and nonfatal firearm assaults on police officers in the United States, 2014–2019

**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 …