Phoenix police to record when officers point their guns
Source: Associated Press
Anita Snow, Associated Press
Updated 6:26 pm CDT, Friday, August 2, 2019
PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Police Department will train officers to track when they point their guns at people as the agency works to increase trust and transparency after a record number of shootings last year and national outrage over a cellphone video showing officers cursing and aiming guns at a black family.
The department said Friday the new policy was recommended by the National Police Foundation, which found Phoenix had 44 officer-involved shootings last year, more than any other U.S. department. Of those, 23 were fatal.
A separate database that tracks fatal shootings by police showed Phoenix officers also killed more people than any other agency in 2018. The city is now the nation's fifth largest, with about 1.6 million people.
Residents' distrust of the police, especially in African American and Hispanic communities, grew deeper in June when cellphone video emerged showing officers pointing guns when they confronted an unarmed black couple with two small children they suspected of shoplifting.
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