Using case reviews conducted by prosecutors, autopsy and police reports and dozens of interviews, Colorado Public Radio has created and analyzed a database of information from every shooting in which a suspect was injured or killed in the past six years.
. “I would have wanted us not to be at the top of this list. This is not a list that makes anyone feel good.”use throughout the state. Its presence, accompanied by the possession of weapons, is a part of nearly half of the deadly interactions with police during the period examined. No Colorado town approaches the rate of the LaSalle Police Department in Weld County, where there have been four officer-involved shootings in six years, a rate of 170.5 per 100,000 residents. That is about 32 times the statewide rate.are rare: Only four percent of the 309 cases were deemed justified by prosecutors with that statute as the primary rationale.
That’s when Officer Neal Robinson arrived in his newly issued Pueblo Police SUV. Fearing damage to the new car, according to his statement to investigators, he pulled toward the front of the Camry but left Byrd room to drive away. He hopped out, shut his SUV’s door and pulled out his service pistol, aiming at Byrd’s face.Byrd backed out from under the semitrailer, hitting the cruiser behind him again, then slowly pulled forward, choosing not to comply with the officer’s orders.
It also illustrates a law enforcement maxim that officer-involved shootings tend to track rates of violent crime. Pueblo’s violent crime rate has grown rapidly since 2014, from 881 crimes per 100,000 residents in 2014 to 1061 per 100,000 in 2018, a 21 percent increase.
Pueblo can at least point to its higher-than-average rate of violent crime as an explanation for its number of officer-involved shootings. “I just feel like something's not right,” she said. “I feel like they're trained to kill.” She said she plans to sue Westminster. LaSalle, in Weld County, has just 2,346 residents, but its officers have shot four people in the six years examined. Two of those were in 2019. The total gives the small town the highest officer-involved shooting rate in the state. But there is an asterisk: In three of those four cases, Lasalle officers were providing aid to neighboring police agencies and didn’t initiate the activity that led to a shooting. LaSalle Chief Carl Harvey did not return a request for comment from CPR.
CPRNews What?
CPRNews Play stupid games win stupid prizes. Do what the cop says and stay safe.
CPRNews This sounds like the New Philippines!
CPRNews Hey, police cultists, instead of brutally enforcing laws why don't you use the badge to address the actual causes of crime? Poverty, abuse, systemic discrimination and stigmatization. Oh wait, you all don't care! Becoming a cop is the easiest way to legally kill people.
CPRNews It's all in preparation for a police state ran government, in conjunction with what D. _rump is doing. The dictator style government. A means and enslavement of the people. Thank Putin for the inspiration.
CPRNews Disturbing. I guess nothing seems wrong with that, huh?
CPRNews If they are getting shot at, they should shoot back
CPRNews Sounds like a lovely place... To get shot.
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CPRNews What part of FREEZE.....DON'T MOVE....KEEP YOUR HANDS IN PLAIN SIGHT....DON'T ASSAULT A COP....DON'T FLEE....etc etc etc etc do ADULTS NOT UNDERSTAND?