Archive for July, 2005
Force Science News #23: Study Reveals Important Truths Hidden in the Details of Officer-Involved Shootings
Force Science News #23
July 11, 2005
STUDY REVEALS IMPORTANT TRUTHS HIDDEN IN THE DETAILS OF OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS
Ideas for research projects can germinate from the least likely moments, as when a student asked Firearms Trainer Tom Aveni if he’d ever visited the ACLU’s website. He hadn’t (“Why would I even want to go there?”), but out of curiosity he did.
There in a section dedicated to “police abuse” he read a statistic he regarded as probably exaggerated: that 25 per cent of all law enforcement shootings involve unarmed suspects. That launched him on a long and continuing quest for more details about officer-involved gunfights that has turned up a series of surprising–and disturbing–findings.
