@article{ref1,
title="The Influence of Black Mayors on Police Officers Killed: A Comment on Kaminski and Stucky",
journal="Homicide studies",
year="2010",
author="Jacobs, D.",
volume="14",
number="2",
pages="193-201",
abstract="In a recent publication Kaminsky and Stucky (2009) claim our finding that the presence of a black mayor reduces killings of police officers (see Jacobs & Carmichael 2002) does not hold after they correct an error I made in the 2002 publication. Kaminsky and Stucky, however, ignore our most comprehensive models, which included a nonlinear specification with considerable explanatory power. They instead confine their reanalysis to a simplified and initial less exhaustive model in our paper that did not include the nonlinear specification without mentioning this and other omissions. After I correct my error, and retain the nonlinear specification that was in our definitive models, multiple versions of this model continue to support our hypothesis that the presence of a black mayor reduces killings of police officers. This comment concludes by outsome problems in Kaminski and Stucky’s analysis of later data.<p />",
language="",
issn="1088-7679",
doi="10.1177/1088767910364745",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767910364745"
}