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Citation

Cooper H, Moore L, Gruskin S, Krieger N. Am. J. Public Health 2004; 94(7): 1109-1118.

Affiliation

Medical Helath and Research Association of New York, Inc., National Development and Research Institutes, Inc, New York, NY 10010, USA. cooper@ndri.org

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, American Public Health Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15226128

PMCID

PMC1448406

Abstract

Despite growing recognition of violence's health consequences and the World Health Organization's recent classification of police officers' excessive use of force as a form of violence, public health investigators have produced scant research characterizing police-perpetrated abuse. Using qualitative data from a study of a police drug crackdown in 2000 in 1 New York City police precinct, we explored 40 injection drug using and 25 non-drug using precinct residents' perceptions of and experiences with police-perpetrated abuse. Participants, particularly injection drug users and non-drug using men, reported police physical, psychological, and sexual violence and neglect; they often associated this abuse with crackdown-related tactics and perceived officer prejudice. We recommend that public health research address the prevalence, nature, and public health implications of police violence.

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