NCJ Number
230493
Journal
Homicide Studies Volume: 14 Issue: 2 Dated: May 2010 Pages: 193-201
Date Published
May 2010
Length
9 pages
Annotation
This article presents a rebuttal to an analysis of a study about the effect that a Black mayor has on the rate at which police officers are killed.
Abstract
In a recent publication Kaminsky and Stucky (2009) claim our finding that the presence of a Black mayor reduces killings of police officers (see Jacobs and Carmichael 2002) does not hold after they correct an error I made in the 2002 publication. Kaminsky and Stucky, however, ignore our most comprehensive models, which included a nonlinear specification with considerable explanatory power. They instead confine their reanalysis to a simplified and initial less exhaustive model in our paper that did not include the nonlinear specification without mentioning this and other omissions. After I correct my error, and retain the nonlinear specification that was in our definitive models, multiple versions of this model continue to support our hypothesis that the presence of a Black mayor reduces killings of police officers. This comment concludes by outsome problems in Kaminski and Stucky's analysis of later data. Tables, notes, and references (Published Abstract)