Weapon-Confusion Shootings


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Oct 27 2023 45 mins  

Supplemental Reading:

CBS News Report of Weapon-Confusion Shooting in Sauk Village, IL:

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/sauk-village-police-shooting-body-camera-unarmed-14-year-old-boy/?fbclid=IwAR3lHRrzBjkqux8zNFLVnRCfQdz16IHxaD-pbaOiKPvd9eHcQboqKvGhK_U

Taylor, P. L. (2020). Guns and TASERs: Solving cops' 'weapon-confusion' problem. The Crime Report.

https://thecrimereport.org/2020/08/05/guns-and-tasers-solving-cops-weapon-confusion-problem/

Woods, D. D., Dekker, S., Cook, R., Johannesen, L., & Sarter, N. (2010). Behind Human Error (2nd Edition). Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Human-Error-David-Woods/dp/0754678342

Martin, J. A. (2016). Applied human error theory: A police TASER-confusion shooting case study. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1541931213601108

Taylor, P. L. (2019). Beyond false positives: A typology of police shooting errors. Criminology & Public Policy, 18: 807-822.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1745-9133.12460

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