Criminal Justice
For Kentucky State Police, Lots of Shootings Draw Little Scrutiny
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The Kentucky State Police fatally shot 41 people from 2015 through 2020, more than any other law enforcement agency in the state.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/series/rural-shootings-and-the-kentucky-state-police/)
John Whitlock for The Marshall Project and KyCIR
As police shootings have become a flashpoint in U.S. cities, The Marshall Project and the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting spent a year examining those urban killings’ little-publicized counterparts in rural America.
The Kentucky State Police fatally shot 41 people from 2015 through 2020, more than any other law enforcement agency in the state.
As fatal police shootings have become a flash point in U.S. cities, they have also occurred at high rates in rural areas — largely without national attention.