Citation

Brown ME, Barthelemy JJ. Health Soc. Work 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Oxford University Press)

DOI

10.1093/hsw/hlz027

PMID

31621852

Abstract

Bauchner et al. (2017) reported that “since 1968, more individuals in the United States have died from gun violence than in battle during all the wars the country has fought since its inception” (p. 1763). Due to the ease of accessibility to firearms in the United States and the ever-increasing death toll, gun violence and its impact on communities in the United States remains a major public health crisis (Cox, 2018). Few communities are affected more than urban communities of color. Exacerbating this crisis is the use of deadly force on black male individuals during encounters with law enforcement officers. Yet there remains a dearth of literature on officer-involved shootings and the health implications for communities of color ...

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