The deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and so many others have sparked outcry around the world. But most cases go unrecognized by the media and general public; every day in the United States, people like Floyd and Taylor are injured or killed during law enforcement activities. While police activities broadly impact many lives, Black men are far more likely to be stopped, detained, arrested, injured and killed by police, which has been a key driver of the Black Lives Matter movement and calls for police reform which date back more than 100 years.

Our Law Enforcement Epidemiology Project aims to build a comprehensive surveillance system to better characterize the magnitude of civilian and law enforcement injuries that occur each year in the U.S. and to guide policy reform that addresses police use of force tactics and strategies to build community trust in the police.