Nationwide, police shot and killed nearly 1,000 personnes dans 2017

For the third year in a row, police nationwide shot and killed nearly 1,000 les gens, a grim annual tally that has persisted despite widespread public scrutiny of officers’ use of fatal force.

Police fatally shot 987 people last year, or two dozen more than they killed in 2016, according to an ongoing Washington Post database project that tracks the fatal shootings. Depuis 2015, The Post has logged the details of 2,945 shooting deaths, culled from local news coverage, public records and social-media reports. Lire la suite…