Why cops shoot

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“The top line findings: Florida’s police shot 827 people in those six years, or about one every 2½ days. More than half — 434 — were fatal. Each year had about the same number of shootings, an average of 138. […]

“Nearly a fifth of the people shot — 156 — were unarmed; no gun, no knife, no vehicle. And half of those were black, in a state where blacks make up just 15 percent of the population. That means unarmed black people were nearly eight times as likely to be shot by police than whites.”

An unprecedented review of Florida police shootings reveals how fear and bias breed confusion, how order quickly dissolves into chaos, and ways to avert the violence.

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