U.S. deaths by police gunfire on track to reach 1,000 for third year in a row
Source: Reuters
Reuters
01 JUL 2017 AT 16:20 ET
Police officers across the United States shot 492 people dead in the first half of 2017, on track to approach 1,000 such incidents for the third year in a row, the Washington Post reported on Saturday.
The Post, which has been tracking all fatal shootings by police since 2015, said the tally on June 16 of this year was identical to last year’s count.
The paper said that since 2015 it had found twice as many police shootings than those recorded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“These numbers show us that officer-involved shootings are constant over time,” Geoffrey Alpert, a criminologist at the University of South Carolina, told the Post. “Some places go up, some go down, but its averaging out. This is our society in the 21st century.”
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