In March 2016, the Ruderman Family Foundation released its first white paper – a 2-year overview (2013–2015) of media coverage of law enforcement's use of force against disabled individuals with the goal of creating public awareness of the battle for inclusion and equality of people with disabilities. The study was authored by David M. Perry, a disability rights journalist and Associate Professor of History at Dominican University, and Lawrence Carter-Long, an authority on media representation of disability. It concluded that disabled individuals make up a third to half of individuals killed by law enforcement officers and the majority in use-of-force cases such as Eric Garner, Kajieme Powell, Tanesha Anderson, Freddie Gray and Sandra Bland. This was true both for cases deemed illegal or against policy and for those in which officers were fully exonerated. The authors argue that the media ignored the disability component or reported them in ways that intensified stigma and ableism. The study was covered by media outlets including NBC News, Al Jazeera, "International Business Times" and "New York Magazine".