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/tag/police-shootings/)
The Kentucky State Police fatally shot 41 people from 2015 through 2020, more than any other law enforcement agency in the state.
The old policy stressed that officers should only shoot at a moving vehicle “when it does not create an unreasonable risk of harm to innocent persons.”
Tammy Riggs was at work when she got an alert on her phone from a local news station about a police shooting. She watched the station’s live video stream for hours. “And I didn’t know it was my son,” she said.
Now that the prosecutor has declined to charge the officers who killed Shelby Gazaway, LMPD released the case file.
The officers have not been cleared of wrongdoing in the Shelby Gazaway case, but they’re back on patrol.
Despite weeks of daily calls from protesters to “say their name,” neither Breonna Taylor nor David McAtee is listed by name in the database of police shootings that’s also riddled with inaccuracies.