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> Police have fatally shot roughly 1,000 people in each of the past seven years, ranging from 958 in 2016 to last year’s high.

So not such a huge escalation, since "tracking began" in 2015.

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If you stick with the article all the way to the bottom, it admits as much:

> The relative stability of the annual number of fatal shootings does not mean the total is unchangeable. Wheeler said societal interventions, such as new policies around use of force, could shift the total from its expected range.

Makes you wonder what agenda the headline writer is trying to push.

Probably the agenda of making a living.

Since coroners lie to protect Police Departments, the number is far higher than just ~1000/year. An earlier study showed the actual number murdered was roughly ~2000/year.

But journalists & academics lie to protect criminals, so perhaps that balances things out.

Do they? And if they do, you think a lesser sentence is equivalent to extrajudicially murdering unarmed civilians?

Strange world you seem to want to live in. I pray your family never becomes a victim of your nonsense.

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