David Klinger

American criminologist and former police officer, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He served with the Los Angeles Police Department from 1980 to 1983, an experience that included a fatal on-duty shooting, and later worked for the police department in Redmond, Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Washington, where his doctoral research examined police behavior through direct observation. He is known for combining his own law enforcement background with academic research into police shootings in the United States, and he holds a senior research position at the Police Foundation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/