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Progress toward national estimates of police use of force

This research builds on three decades of effort to produce national estimates of the amount and rate of force used by law enforcement officers in the United States. Prior efforts to produce national estimates have suffered from poor and inconsistent measurements of force, small and unrepresentative...

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Confidence intervals
Consortia
Criminal investigation
Criminal investigations
Deadly force
Demographic aspects
Departments
Enforcement
Engineering and Technology
Estimates
Jurisdiction
Law enforcement
Laws, regulations and rules
Medicine and Health Sciences
Missing data
Murders & murder attempts
People and Places
Police
Politics
Research and Analysis Methods
Social research
Social Sciences
Statistical analysis
Statistical methods
Studies
Task forces
title Progress toward national estimates of police use of force
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