![]() "Comparing police shootings to the population suggests that officers are equally likely to come into contact with and to engage in substantially similar interactions with different population groups, but we know that's not the case," he said. Seth Stoughton, an assistant law professor at the University of South Carolina and a former police officer, said the racial breakdown seems "closer to representative" than police-shooting trends in other American cities. "If I were the Phoenix police chief, I would be having discussions with people in Dallas and San Diego to figure out what did you do to address police shootings," she said. Kami Chavis, a law professor at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, said Phoenix police need to look at other jurisdictions that have reduced police shootings. "What Phoenix police has is a culture where we've been self-reflective, where we're willing to look at training methods, we're willing to engage with community and the public," Williams said. Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams, newly-elected Mayor Kate Gallego and longtime Phoenix City Manager Ed Zuercher are promising changes, including finding new ways to respond to individuals who may be in the midst of a behavioral-health crisis, tracking how many times officers draw their weapons, adjusting officer training and improving communication with the public. ![]() "People who live in Phoenix are going to start to boil over as they start to gather more information about the fact that there are these huge disparities between what's happening in Phoenix and what's happening in other places," Rashawn Ray, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, said. "Particularly when no one seems to necessarily have a reason for why we see these increases." Phoenix leaders call 2018 an anomaly and have promised to make changes in training, awareness and approach.Ī REPUBLIC ANALYSIS: Every 5 days, an Arizona officer shoots someone police departments saw a decline in police shootings, but the number of shootings in Phoenix more than doubled from 2017 to 2018. Criminal-justice experts say there's no clear answer for why Phoenix saw such a drastic increase. In 2018, Phoenix police officers fired at more people than law-enforcement officers did in any other city in the United States. Here is one of the stories related to police use of force. ![]() Department of Justice announced it was investigating the department. The Arizona Republic has published extensive investigations of Phoenix Police Department actions in recent years. ![]()
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