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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

SbC en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of suicide by cop.
    • According to a report released in 1983 of 99 officer-involved shootings (OISs) in Los Angeles County by Dr. Karl Harris, former Los Angeles County Deputy Medical Examiner, between 10% and 25% of all the shootings he studied involved suicide attempts. Harris also found that 50% of the weapons used to threaten officers in the SbC incidents he studied were firearms. 2010, Cyril H. Wecht, Henry C. Lee, D.P. van Blaricom, Mel Tucker, Investigation and Prevention of Officer-Involved Deaths, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 113:

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