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Comparing Safety Outcomes in Police Use-Of-Force Cases for Law Enforcement Agencies That Have Deployed Conducted Energy Devices and A Matched Comparison Group That Have Not: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
Comparing Safety Outcomes in Police Use-Of-Force Cases for Law Enforcement Agencies That Have Deployed Conducted Energy Devices and A Matched Comparison Group That Have Not: A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
Jun. 07, 2012
ANNOTATION: The use of Conducted Energy Devices (CED) by law enforcement agencies (LEAs) is examined in order to produce practical information that can be used to develop guidelines for the effective and safe utilization of CEDs. Five chapters follow an executive summary—introduction, literature review, research design and methods, study results, and discussion and conclusion. “Overall, we found that the CED sites were associated with improved safety outcomes when compared to a group of matched non-CED sites on six of nine safety measures, including reductions in (1) officer injuries, (2–3) suspect injuries and severe injuries, (4–5) officers and suspects receiving injuries requiring medical attention, and (6) suspects receiving an injury that resulted in the suspect being taken to a hospital or other medical facility” (p. 1).
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