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This year, the department has recorded 172 shootings through Aug. 24, compared with 212 that occurred during the same period last year.
Police have only made arrests in about 16% of fatal shootings through 28 August this year, according to a department spokesperson.
Shootings through Aug. 26 were up 5.2 percent compared with the same period in 2011; the number of shooting victims is on the rise, up 6.1 percent, to 1,166.
The Washington Post on Saturday published an analysis of 2015 fatal police shootings through May 29, citing "interviews, police reports, local news accounts and other sources".
In the past five months alone, they've opened at least 52 criminal homicide investigations, and seen 145 shootings through the month of April.
When I was a researcher at Everytown for Gun Safety, I looked into whether countless mass shootings took place at sites where concealed and open carry of guns was disallowed and what I learned was that it was meaningless to even try to look at shootings through this lens.
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CHICAGO — Amid the flash and bang of fireworks, gunshots from 47 separate shootings echoed through this city over the extended Fourth of July weekend, killing 11 and wounding dozens more, including a 5-year-old boy.
BAGHDAD — A series of bombings, beheadings and shootings rippled through Iraq on Monday, leaving at least 23 people dead, including 9 children, and intensifying concern about a spike in violence with less than two weeks until national elections.
"It's difficult for people to understand what officers involved in shootings go through — the self-doubt, the worry — and we take great offense to the fact that people are referring to this as a reward system," the union's president, Joey Sigala, said in an interview.
4. Calculated from "Fatal Police Shootings Data" (Through October 31, 2015) The Washington Post. 5. Personal communication from Professor Harry Levine, Queens College, City University of New York, July 1, 2015.
Another Times article, picking up where most Americans still begin when they think of gun violence, looked at mass shootings, but through a distinct lens.
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