@article{ref1,
title="Gun victimization in the line of duty: fatal and nonfatal firearm assaults on police officers in the United States, 2014-2019",
journal="Criminology and public policy",
year="2020",
author="Sierra-Arevalo, Michael and Nix, Justin",
volume="19",
number="3",
pages="1041-1066",
abstract="RESEARCH SUMMARY: Using open-source data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), we analyze national- and state-level trends in fatal and nonfatal firearm assaults of U.S. police officers from 2014 to 2019 (N = 1,467). <br><br>RESULTS show that (a) most firearm assaults are nonfatal, (b) there is no compelling evidence that the national rate of firearm assault on police has substantially increased during the last 6 years, and (c) there is substantial state-level variation in rates of firearm assault on police officers. POLICY IMPLICATIONS: GVA has decided strengths relative to existing data sources on police victimization and danger in policing. We consider the promises and pitfalls of this and other open-source data sets in policing research and recommend that recent state-level improvements in use-of-force data collection be replicated and expanded to include data on violence against police.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1538-6473",
doi="10.1111/1745-9133.12507",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12507"
}