title: Predicting the rate with which police officers are assaulted, injured, and killed.
abstract: From 1964-1990, the rates with which police officers were assaulted, injured, and killed were predicted by social indicators of violence and social disintegration.
authors.affiliation: Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona 08240-0195, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D016495:Police; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*