Tag: police shootings

The president of the Jacksonville (FL) Fraternal Order of Police said officer shootings are becoming far too common, and that he believes there's too much divisiveness in the air. 

The news media claim that “fatal shootings by officers in 2016 remained virtually unchanged” despite a 3.4% decrease in fatal police shootings, a 44% decrease in shootings of unarmed persons—and ...

Baton Rouge police and sheriff's department spent a total $1.6 million on overtime pay in July, 2016—in response to protests following the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling by a police ...

the Congressional Black Caucus is demanding that Attorney General Loretta Lynch immediately take action to prevent police killings with a nationwide crackdown on law enforcement.