The number of fatal shootings by US police in 2016 remained virtually unchanged from last year when nearly 1,000 people were shot and killed by officers, an investigation shows.
Police officers fatally shot 957 people this year as of Thursday, amounting to three deaths each day, according to an ongoing project by The Washington Post to track fatal shootings by police.
That is despite increased scrutiny of law enforcement tactics across the country following a series of high-profile deaths at the hands of police officers.
For two consecutive years, the newspaper’s project has documented more than twice the number of fatal shootings reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
A disproportionate number of those killed this year were African Americans as it was the case in 2015, when the the Post tracked 991 fatal shootings by police.
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