ABSTRACT

Past research on factors influencing firearm assault (FA) mortality have not focused on police officers who, compared to other U.S. workers and the general public, experience especially high rates of firearm victimization. This study focuses on this unique population of FA victims and examines the relationship between travel time to the nearest trauma care facility and the probability of survival among officers shot on duty. Combining data on trauma care center location and 7 years of data on U.S. police officers fatally or non-fatally assaulted with a firearm, we use logistic regression to model the probability of FA fatality among police by proximity of the FA to the nearest trauma care facility. We find that travel time to trauma care was not associated with reduced FA mortality among police from 2014 to 2020. FA mortality was significantly lower in 2020 than the six years prior.

摘要

过去关于影响枪支袭击 (FA) 死亡率的因素的研究并未关注与其他美国工人和公众相比，枪支受害率特别高的警察。本研究侧重于这一独特的 FA 受害者群体，并研究了前往最近的创伤护理机构的旅行时间与执勤人员的生存概率之间的关系。结合创伤护理中心位置的数据和 7 年来美国警察被枪击致死或非致死的数据，我们使用逻辑回归模型，通过 FA 与最近的创伤护理设施的接近程度来模拟警察中 FA 死亡的概率. 我们发现，从 2014 年到 2020 年，前往创伤护理的旅行时间与警察中 FA 死亡率的降低无关。