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Shootings by LA police officers spiked by more than 50% in 2015
Source: The Guardian
Shootings by LA police officers spiked by more than 50% in 2015
Nicky Woolf in Los Angeles
Wednesday 2 March 2016 15.00 GMT
The number of shootings by Los Angeles police officers spiked by more than 50% last year, according to the department’s 2015 use of force report.
Forty-eight people were shot by officers in 2015, up from 30 in 2014, according to the Los Angeles police department (LAPD) report, which was released on Tuesday. Twenty-one of those shot died from their injuries, up from 18 the year before.
By comparison, in New York – a city more than twice the size of Los Angeles, with four times the number of police officers – police shot 34 people, eight of whom died.
The LAPD report also showed that black people were five times more likely to be shot by police than white people and 2.6 times more likely than Latinos, once adjusted for relative populations.
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Nicky Woolf in Los Angeles
Wednesday 2 March 2016 15.00 GMT
The number of shootings by Los Angeles police officers spiked by more than 50% last year, according to the department’s 2015 use of force report.
Forty-eight people were shot by officers in 2015, up from 30 in 2014, according to the Los Angeles police department (LAPD) report, which was released on Tuesday. Twenty-one of those shot died from their injuries, up from 18 the year before.
By comparison, in New York – a city more than twice the size of Los Angeles, with four times the number of police officers – police shot 34 people, eight of whom died.
The LAPD report also showed that black people were five times more likely to be shot by police than white people and 2.6 times more likely than Latinos, once adjusted for relative populations.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/02/los-angeles-police-shootings-increase-2015