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14 Homicide Stud. 3 (2010)

handle is hein.journals/homcst14 and id is 1 raw text is: Articles Homicide Studies 14(1) 3-23 Killings of Police in U.S. Cities © 2010 SAGE Publications Reprints and permission: http://www. since 1 980: An Examiination sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1 177/1088767909353258 of Environmental and http://hs.sagepub.com Political Explanations $SAGE Stephanie L. Kent' Abstract Most research on killings of police in urban areas attempted to link lethal violence against officers to the violence and disorder in the communities they work.Yet support for this relationship is inconsistent. Fewer studies considered whether local political arrangements affect killings of police.This study attempts to remedy this gap by using recent data to investigate the relationship between the political conditions of large U.S. cities and the number of homicides of police officers in the line of duty in the years 1980, 1990, and 2000. Negative binomial regression analyses suggest that racial income inequality and the size of the Black population are positively associated with killings of police but cities with African American mayors have less killings. Police killings of citizens are also positively related to officer killings.The results largely support political explanations and uncover time-contingent effects of segregation on violence against state representatives. Keywords police, homicide, racial threat, social control What macrosocial factors predict lethal violence against the police? The research on this topic has produced disparate findings depending on the unit of analysis or period studied (see Kaminski, 2004 for a comprehensive review), but many criminologists report a relationship between the level of community violence and occupational risk of death. In other words, lethal violence against the police may result from working with dangerous populations. 'Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH Corresponding Author: Stephanie L. Kent, Department of Sociology, Cleveland State University, 212 1 Euclid Avenue, Rhodes Tower 1721, Cleveland, OH 44115-2214 Email: s.l.kent59@csuohio.edu

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