# Police prioritizing their own personal safety over that of the public

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**Created:** [October 16, 2026, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-prioritizing-their-own-personal-safety-over-that-of-the-public/1033900 "2026-10-16T20:24:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2026, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/police-prioritizing-their-own-personal-safety-over-that-of-the-public/1033900/101 "2026-10-18T06:02:59Z")

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> > [@robby](#):
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> > But that 3% figure comes from a study that is very slanted toward the police and provides no cite for where they came up with that figure.
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> That is a _peer reviewed punlished article._ Got a cite it is biased? It also has no less than 20 references- which is how they got that number.

Give me a break. That article is ludicrously biased starting with the title alone:

**[Police shootings: how statistics can be dangerously misleading when excluding context factors](https://medcraveonline.com/FRCIJ/police-shootings-how-statistics-can-be-dangerously-misleading-when-excluding-context-factors.html)**

It’s written not by someone who has any experience in rigorous academic research, but by a “licensed psychologist” who works for a for-profit consulting company.

And the publisher (MedCrave) is a for-profit open-access publisher whose journals have faced academic scrutiny regarding the rigor of their peer-review processes, aggressive email solicitation of manuscripts, and the pay-to-publish model.

Finally, the journal in question (_Forensic Research & Criminology International Journal_) should not be confused with mainstream, high-impact legacy journals in the discipline, such as _Forensic Science International_ (published by Elsevier). Based on data from Data from [Exaly](https://exaly.com/journal/106596/forensic-research-criminology-international-journal), it has a low citation impact, with the majority its published articles receiving exactly zero citations.

So do you have a real cite?

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