@article{ref1,
title="Firearm availability and fatal police shootings",
journal="Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science",
year="2020",
author="Nagin, Daniel S.",
volume="687",
number="1",
pages="49-57",
abstract="Do states with more guns have higher rates of fatal police shootings? This article uses a validated measure of firearm availability (the percentage of suicides committed with a firearm) to examine the relationship between gun proliferation and fatal police shootings. It expands on existing research to include (1) measures of access to Level I and II trauma centers, (2) interpretation of the findings from the lenses of &quot;statistical prediction,&quot; and (3) tests for structural differences between models for black decedents versus nonblack decedents. <br><br>FINDINGS confirm the correlation between statewide prevalence of gun ownership and fatal police shootings for both all decedents and unarmed decedents. It provides partial support for &quot;statistical prediction&quot; by police and finds that greater access to trauma centers is associated with lower rates of citizen deaths. The analysis suggests a far broader range of policy options for saving lives, such as better enforcement of legal restrictions on firearm possession, than focusing solely on policing systems.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-7162",
doi="10.1177/0002716219896259",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716219896259"
}