title: Predicting the rate with which law enforcement officers are murdered.
abstract: In a time-series study of data from 1961 to 1985, the rate with which American police officers were killed by civilians was best predicted by the general homicide rate and the rate of justifiable homicide by police officers.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, im Pomona 08240-0195, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology