Firearm availability and police shootings of citizens: a city level analysis of fatal and injurious shootings in California and Florida.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A growing body of research has found a link between firearm availability and police shootings of citizens across place. The problem, however, is that the previous studies on the topic tend to suffer from several limitations: a near exclusive focus on citizen fatalities, units of analysis at the state or county levels, and a variety of proxy measures tapping into community-level firearm access. The current study set out to address these issues by examining the relationship between different forms of firearm availability and both fatal and nonfatal injurious police shootings of citizens at the city level.

Methods

More specifically, it merged The Trace's "Missing Pieces" measures of guns reported lost and stolen to police as well as licensed firearms dealers across j

SUBMITTER: Shjarback JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10588120 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature