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Limiting deadly force and police shootings

By Michael D. White

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The study published in the Crime & Delinquency found that when Philadelphia repealed its restrictive deadly force policy in 1974, police shootings rose substantially and then dropped again when the city adopted a new deadly force policy in 1980 that limited deadly force to only be used, “in defense of life when no alternatives exist” (White, 2001).

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