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Gonna log off for the day and get some work done. But given...several prominent news stories...here’s a short thread to put our relevant analysis and reporting on policing, race and justice in one place:
Following Ferguson, the Washington Post launched an effort to track every fatal shooting in America committed by an on-duty police officer. Here is our database of every fatal police shooting since Jan 1, 2015 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
The vast majority of those killed are white. But, black Americans are over-represented among fatal police shooting victims (and especially among unarmed police shooting victims) https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2015/08/08/black-and-unarmed/
More on race and police shooting statistics here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/
Police officers are rarely charged with crimes for on-duty shootings -- even in cases that generate outrage. Rate of prosecutions has increased a bit since our 2015 piece, however the topline takeaways remain accurate https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2015/04/11/thousands-dead-few-prosecuted/
But everyone agrees there are "bad apple" police officers. So what happens to them? Our 2017 investigation found that fired police officers are often successful at appealing and winning their jobs back https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/investigations/police-fired-rehired/
Those feel like most relevant pieces given the news today. But each project contains many pieces -- explorations and analysis of body camera cases, officers who shoot multiple people, how fired officers circulate between departments. Would encourage folks to click through.
And as always, happy to answer any questions about our reporting //findings //process etc etc
