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Police killings have been one of this year’s defining issues, triggering nationwide protests and riots in response to an epidemic of executions without a trial and excessive violence by law enforcement officers that have largely been inflicted on African-Americans. The development of portable film recording technology and heightened interest into the actions of police have revealed a deeply troubling undercurrent of racism infecting our police departments and a shocking tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.
Today, the advocacy group Mapping Police Violence released their data for 2015, and it paints a horrifying picture. Their findings are summarized as follows:
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