@article{ref1,
title="Characterizing perceived police violence: implications for public health",
journal="American journal of public health",
year="2004",
author="Krieger, Nancy and Gruskin, Sofia and Moore, Linda and Cooper, Holly",
volume="94",
number="7",
pages="1109-1118",
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.",
language="",
issn="0090-0036",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}