The Hidden Toll of Nonfatal Police Shootings
For every five people shot and killed by police officers across over 150 police departments with the highest rates of police shootings, another four people were injured in police shootings but survived, an investigation by The Washington Post.reveals.
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For every five people shot and killed by police officers across over 150 police departments with the highest rates of police shootings, another four people were injured in police shootings but survived, according to a new report from the Washington Post. Nonfatal shooting data is largely obscure on the national level, but, in a new analysis from the Washington Post’s Brian Howey, Wesley Lowery and Steven Rich, the Post and Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program analyzed public documents recording nonfatal shootings from police departments with the highest counts of fatal shootings in the country between 2005 and 2020. Since the analysis only looked at shooting incidents at departments with five or more fatal shootings, the total number of people shot and injured by police may be significantly higher. Read the full analysis here.
