2023
DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2023.2172010
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Suspect resistance, police use of force, and officer injuries in a post-Floyd era: an analysis of two large police departments

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“…Research is emerging about the effects of these events on the police profession. Recent scholarship suggests considerably elevated levels of turnover in police agencies (Adams et al, 2023;Mourtgos et al, 2022) resulting in widespread staffing crises (PERF, 2023), significant increases in resistance by suspects during encounters with police in some cities (Boehme & Kaminski, 2023), and a significant short term spike in firearms violence against police officers (Sierra-Arévalo et al, 2023). We do not, however, have a reliable understanding of how the nation's police leadership has perceived and characterized these effects.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Research is emerging about the effects of these events on the police profession. Recent scholarship suggests considerably elevated levels of turnover in police agencies (Adams et al, 2023;Mourtgos et al, 2022) resulting in widespread staffing crises (PERF, 2023), significant increases in resistance by suspects during encounters with police in some cities (Boehme & Kaminski, 2023), and a significant short term spike in firearms violence against police officers (Sierra-Arévalo et al, 2023). We do not, however, have a reliable understanding of how the nation's police leadership has perceived and characterized these effects.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Previous research has suggested that agencies with higher likelihood for dangerous and hostile encounters faced more police turnover (Schuck & Rabe-Hemp, 2018). Boehme and Kaminski (2023) looked to the post-Floyd period in Indianapolis and New Orleans, and found that suspect resistance and use of force increased in both cities, while officer injuries increased only in the New Orleans police department. Sierra-Arévalo et al (2023) provide the clearest evidence to date for a period of "retributive violence" directed at police officers in the immediate aftermath of the Floyd protests.…”
Section: Mechanisms and Theorymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In support of this claim, scholars have linked increases in public hostility to increased numbers of officers leaving agencies (Mourtgos et al., 2022), and even a short‐lived increase in the number of officers shot on duty (Sierra‐Arévalo et al., 2023). Thus, police may be experiencing greater hostility, animosity, resistance, and violent assaults from civilians daily (Boehme & Kaminski, 2023; Sierra‐Arévalo et al., 2023), while simultaneously struggling to maintain a staffed police force in order to effectively serve the public (Archbold, 2022).…”
Section: Perceptions Of Police In Affecting Policy Changementioning
confidence: 99%