A new USC project, that tracks police killings over the last 20 years, finds that in L.A. County, there are an average of 50 killings a year.
Finch said his team collected information on more than 30,000 police encounters in which someone died over the last 20 years. In Los Angeles County, Finch said there are an average of 50 a year.
“We estimate that officer-involved homicides are about 8% of the total homicides in the U.S. in any given year,” he said, adding that there’s been an uptick nationally the past couple of years. The USC database includes information on whether the person killed was armed, and identifies the department that performed an autopsy. It also tracks cases in which an officer was killed.
The database includes data on municipal debt — a research angle that Finch wants to dig into to assess whether municipal debt triggers over-policing that can lead to more police killings.Finch said his team’s preliminary analysis of the data found that deadly police encounters are increasing more quickly in suburban and rural areas, not cities. Another preliminary finding: police killings are less likely to be officially listed as such if the medical examiner or coroner is overseen by a sheriff.
Emily Elena Dugdale covers smaller police departments around Southern California, school safety officers, jails and prisons, and juvenile justice issues. She also covers the LAPD and the L.A. Sheriff’s Department.
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