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Over 200 individual structures were created by community members, including some by professional bakers and others by gingerbread enthusiasts of all ages and abilities.

Even though federal records indicate that fatal shootings by police have been declining nationwide since 2015, The Washington Posts Fatal Force database shows the opposite is true.

Fatal shootings by officers in at least 2,250 police and sheriffs departments are missing from the past seven years of federal records, according to an analysis of the database maintained by The Post.

Fatal police shootings increase in U.S., but more go unreported: report-

Media coverage leads many Americans to believe that the incidents are far more common than they are.

The case offers a window into the lengthy, complex process that follows killings by police

Yan Li, distraught and apparently suffering from a mental crisis, was shot down in the doorway of her apartment by a team of highly armed officers.

The FBI annual crime statistics for 2020 are now out, making their appearance in a new format called the Crime Data Explorer; I’ll be going over the murder stats. Table 1 of the Expanded Homicide Data lists a total of 17,754 murder victims, 7,029 of them white, 9,913 black, 497 other, and 315 unknown. Table 3 lists the murder offenders, totaling 20,982, 5,844 of them white, 8,142 black, 404 other, and 6,592 unknown, the large number of unknown offenders attributable to as yet unsolved case...

The three white men charged with chasing down and killing Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia were found guilty Wednesday of almost all the charges against them.

Despite a presidential order, for the second year in a row, only 27 percent of police departments have supplied the data.