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New Study: Some Notable Patterns In Officer Use of Force Injuries

A study of a year’s worth of force reports in one major US police department reveals some interesting patterns of officer injuries in non-shooting confrontations. The review was led by Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist with the University of Texas School of Public Health who specializes in violence prevention and injury. Her team included Dr....
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What Locations Are Riskiest For You? New Study IDs Worst Sites

Working with data from the nation’s second largest municipal police department, researchers have constructed a “risk terrain model” that links an officer’s relative danger of felonious injury to the presence of certain environmental factors. “All places may pose risk of battery to officers” on service calls, writes the lead author of the new study, Dr....
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Human Touch And The Wounded Warrior

During a special debriefing at the ILEETA training conference this year, Sgt. Joseph Ferrera of the Southfield (MI) PD showed surveillance video of an elderly man who walked into the lobby of that city’s police station on a quiet Sunday afternoon and started shooting a .380-cal. pistol. Dramatic action dominates the 10-minute clip, as officers...
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Surviving Wounds Before EMS Arrives: The Bible Of Self-Care And Buddy-Care

The foreword for a recent book on casualty care for cops poses two questions that every officer should face up to realistically: If wounded, “how will you survive?” And “What will you do if no one can come to your rescue?” The answers lie in the 129 pages that follow in Officer Down! A Practical...
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New Study Shines A Revealing Light On Police Injuries

A groundbreaking pilot study of more than 9,700 officers, aimed at determining whether it’s feasible to establish a national reporting system for police injuries, has revealed a wealth of intriguing facts about LEOs hurt on duty. Among the highlights: Training exercises were second only to making an arrest as the activity most often engaged in...
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First Results From Ongoing Survey Of Officers Who Survive Wounds

The first small sample of “near-miss” reports about officers who survived potentially fatal injuries has been reviewed by the VALOR Project—with some surprises emerging. VALOR (Violence Against Law Officer Research) is the umbrella name for a variety of ongoing studies by Dr. Matt Sztajnkrycer, seeking to improve on-scene casualty care for wounded LEOs. Sztajnkrycer is...
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Wounded But Alive? You Can Help With New Effort To Save Cops’ Lives

When you or fellow officers survive a “near-miss” incident—one that could have been fatal—Dr. Matt Sztajnkrycer wants to hear from you. You can reach him through a unique website he has just launched: www.valorproject.org. There, regardless of where you live in the world, you can contribute confidentially to an ambitious, ongoing research study designed to...
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