Press Play with Madeleine Brand
A Year of Police Shootings
Nearly 1,000 people were killed by police in 2015. These incidents made headlines nationwide. But there isn’t any official counting of police killings in the U.S. The Washington Post has been closely following this and has collected data of their own on police shootings.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readNearly 1,000 people were killed by police in 2015. These incidents made headlines nationwide. But there isn’t any official counting of police killings in the U.S. The Washington Post has been closely following this and has collected data of their own on police shootings. Among other things, they’ve found that unarmed black men were six times more likely than unarmed whites to be shot and killed.
