@article{ref1,
title="Police response to the armed and suicidal",
journal="Journal of police and criminal psychology",
year="2022",
author="Young, Andrew T. and Pierpoint, Brandon and Perez, Carlos",
volume="37",
number="4",
pages="769-776",
abstract="The current study presented police officers with an armed suicidal subject scenario during an in-service training, and their responses to this scenario were quantified. Officers then participated in a group debriefing and educational session after the scenario. One hundred and eight officers and deputies participated in the current study, and the researchers found that a majority of officers (72.2%) did not shoot the armed suicidal subject. Nine officers (8.3%) never gave a verbal command when faced with an armed suicidal subject, 22% never drew their weapon, and 86.2% walked closer to the subject and/or allowed the subject to walk closer to them. Many officers did nothing when the role player disobeyed their commands to stop moving towards them and 57.8% of officers walked backwards when faced with this threat. Officers removed the gun from the suicidal subject's hand 32.1% of the time.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0882-0783",
doi="10.1007/s11896-020-09384-0",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11896-020-09384-0"
}