AMERICAN POLITICS & PUBLIC POLICY WORKSHOP
Abstract: Police shootings in America spark outrage and protest and raise questions about police use of lethal force. Yet despite the attention given to high-profile shootings, it is extremely difficult to draw wider conclusions about the frequency and outcomes of police gunfire because there is no systematic and centralized source of information on these incidents. This talk is based on a pioneering book, Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) that draws on original data compiled by the authors – Tom Clark, Adam Glynn, and Michael Leo Owens – to examine police shootings, both fatal and non-fatal, in hundreds of American cities. It documents racial disparities in shooting incidents and shows that the media spotlight on the most shocking fatal shootings tell only part of the story of police gunfire in our cities.
Tom Clark is the David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Professor Clark is a scholar of American politics with an interest in the non-democratic uses and consequences of democratic political institutions. His research and teaching interests are in the political economy of judicial politics, policing and public safety, as well as applied formal theory and statistical methodology.
Clark has published three books, including the co-authored Judicial Decision-Making: A Coursebook (West Academic, 2020), The Supreme Court: An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making (Cambridge, 2019), and The Limits of Judicial Independence (Cambridge, 2011). His work has appeared in a number of leading political science journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics.
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