Queensland shootings highlight increase in anti-police sentiment around the world

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In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric

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Title	Queensland shootings highlight increase in anti-police sentiment around the world
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.wundkxyf6
Authors	Hine, Kelly, Davenport-Klunder, Katie
Abstract	Growing civil unrest, exacerbated by COVID-related restrictions and lockdowns, has seen assaults against police rise and made their jobs more dangerous.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	17	35%
India	4	8%
United States	2	4%
Northern Mariana Islands	1	2%
Unknown	24	50%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	37	77%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	5	10%
Scientists	4	8%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	2	4%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 61. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 September 2025.

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#100,722

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Altmetric has tracked 34,348,536 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

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