Police Killings and Police Deaths Are Public Health Data and Can Be Counted

PLoS Med. 2015 Dec 8;12(12):e1001915. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001915. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Abstract

Nancy Krieger and colleagues argue that law-enforcement-related deaths in the United States should be treated as notifiable conditions, which would allow public health departments to report these data in real-time.

MeSH terms

  • Homicide / statistics & numerical data*
  • Humans
  • Law Enforcement*
  • Police / statistics & numerical data*
  • Public Health / methods*
  • Public Health / statistics & numerical data*
  • United States