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Hannah Cooper, ScD, Lisa Moore, DrPh, Sofia Gruskin, JD, MIA and Nancy Krieger, PhD

Hannah Cooper is with the Medical Health and Research Association of New York, Inc, at the National Development and Research Institutes Inc, New York, NY. Lisa Moore is with the Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, Calif. Sofia Gruskin is with the Department of Population and International Health and Nancy Krieger is with the Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Hannah Cooper, ScD, National Development and Research Institutes, Inc, 71 W 23rd St, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010 (e-mail: cooper{at}ndri.org).

Despite growing recognition of violence’s health consequences and the World Health Organization’s recent classification of police officers’ excessive use of force as a form of violence, public health investigators have produced scant research characterizing police-perpetrated abuse.

Using qualitative data from a study of a police drug crackdown in 2000 in 1 New York City police precinct, we explored 40 injection drug using and 25 non–drug using precinct residents’ perceptions of and experiences with police-perpetrated abuse. Participants, particularly injection drug users and non–drug using men, reported police physical, psychological, and sexual violence and neglect; they often associated this abuse with crackdown-related tactics and perceived officer prejudice.

We recommend that public health research address the prevalence, nature, and public health implications of police violence.

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