Julie Ward
@julie-a-ward.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Medicine Health & Society + Public Policy @VanderbiltU. Public Health RN w/PhD from JHU. My views.
Expansion of MBH services & clinician partnerships, protocol development to better identify best-fit responders, prudent use of extreme risk protection orders, & improved training for safer policing responses are needed to prevent future injuries & deaths. @vuartsci.bsky.social @jhucgvs.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Expansion of MBH services & clinician partnerships, protocol development to better identify best-fit responders, prudent use of extreme risk protection orders, & improved training for safer policing responses are needed to prevent future injuries & deaths. @vuartsci.bsky.social @jhucgvs.bsky.social
Corresponder teams or other mental health professionals were onsite for less than 1% of shootings by police during this time period (2015-2020).
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Corresponder teams or other mental health professionals were onsite for less than 1% of shootings by police during this time period (2015-2020).
These mental/behavioral health (MBH) involved shootings had 1.7x higher odds of being dispatch-initiated than MBH uninvolved shootings. Also 1.5x higher odds of resulting in death.
But, overall, they were initially identified as suicidal or behavioral health crises only about 1/4 of the time.
But, overall, they were initially identified as suicidal or behavioral health crises only about 1/4 of the time.
November 14, 2025 at 11:28 PM
These mental/behavioral health (MBH) involved shootings had 1.7x higher odds of being dispatch-initiated than MBH uninvolved shootings. Also 1.5x higher odds of resulting in death.
But, overall, they were initially identified as suicidal or behavioral health crises only about 1/4 of the time.
But, overall, they were initially identified as suicidal or behavioral health crises only about 1/4 of the time.
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This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
120 million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 120 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
See what public lands would be available for sale:
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Fwiw, I agree with the point to not sleep on the role of the sheriffs’ departments. They fired shots in more than 1/3 of injurious shootings in rural areas and nearly 1/4 of suburban. Much higher than we see in urban areas. doi.org/10.1016/j.am...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Fwiw, I agree with the point to not sleep on the role of the sheriffs’ departments. They fired shots in more than 1/3 of injurious shootings in rural areas and nearly 1/4 of suburban. Much higher than we see in urban areas. doi.org/10.1016/j.am...
Related, my understanding is GVA had a source expansion/methods update in 2015 but its included sources have been stable since then. Seems we might have seen more of a bump there if reporting reliability were the main issue.
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Related, my understanding is GVA had a source expansion/methods update in 2015 but its included sources have been stable since then. Seems we might have seen more of a bump there if reporting reliability were the main issue.
But, media consolidation has been more severe in rural areas, so - I wouldn’t rule it out entirely but - I would suspect that the loss of local reporting in this time period would at least partially offset any relative gains in rural area perceived “newsworthiness” of shootings by police.
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
But, media consolidation has been more severe in rural areas, so - I wouldn’t rule it out entirely but - I would suspect that the loss of local reporting in this time period would at least partially offset any relative gains in rural area perceived “newsworthiness” of shootings by police.
I look at that a bit in this study using a county “news deserts” variable. We see that counties with no local newspapers had lower shooting incidence, which suggests that underreporting has been an issue.
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I look at that a bit in this study using a county “news deserts” variable. We see that counties with no local newspapers had lower shooting incidence, which suggests that underreporting has been an issue.
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...
Also want to note that these patterns hold up when population size and nonfatal shooting injuries are also factored in. www.ajpmonline.org/cms/10.1016/...
www.ajpmonline.org
May 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Also want to note that these patterns hold up when population size and nonfatal shooting injuries are also factored in. www.ajpmonline.org/cms/10.1016/...
Really sorry to hear this, Dan. 😡
April 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Really sorry to hear this, Dan. 😡