Sentence examples for on shootings from inspiring English sources

And during a time in which attention was focused on shootings by police after the shooting death of an unarmed man in Midtown Manhattan last March, the number of police officers who fired their guns declined to 174 last year, from 194 in 1999.

Hours after the killings, President Obama clearly agitated at making his 15th statement on shootings since taking office, said: "There's been another mass shooting in America" and spoke of the country being numbed by the repeated massacres.

The analysis, conducted by the New York Times with data collected by Reddit's mass shooting tracker and the Gun Violence Archive, used law enforcement reports on shootings that left four or more people injured or dead in 2015.

"Does it have a major impact on shootings?

Mr. Rankin, 44, has enjoyed a long string of victories at courthouses around the city in cases centering on shootings, beatings and other mayhem.

His doctoral dissertation in 1978 on shootings by New York City police officers led to now commonplace rules that forbid warning shots and firing at moving vehicles.

The decision was unusual because judges rarely convict officers for on-duty shootings.

So far this year, officers have investigated 62 black-on-black shootings, compared with 115 at the same point last year.

In recent months, two police officers have testified before grand juries looking into their separate fatal on-duty shootings.

Meanwhile, since 2005, only 13 officers have been convicted for on-duty shootings.

On-campus shootings are themselves just a small part of U.S. gun violence.