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The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the past 15 years. The strategy, intended to reduce violence and save lives, has proven deadly, and disproportionate: Of the 94 who died over the past decade; about half were Black. The deaths illustrate an often-hidden way fatal U.S. police encounters end: not with the firing of an officer’s gun but with the silent use of a medical syringe.

The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the past 15 years. The strategy, intended to reduce violence and save lives, has proven deadly, and disproportionate: Of the 94 who died over the past decade; about half were Black. The deaths illustrate an often-hidden way fatal U.S. police encounters end: not with the firing of an officer’s gun but with the silent use of a medical syringe.

An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15

Associated Press investigation based on law enforcement and medical records shows how a strategy intended to reduce violence and save lives has resulted in some avoidable deaths

An AP investigation shows how a strategy intended to reduce violence and save lives has resulted in some avoidable deaths.

FRIENDLY COMPETITION is revving up on the Seacoast.

The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years and is built on questionable science.

Selling liquor and wine along the state’s two interstate highways is such good business for the state of New Hampshire that it wants to bolster those sales with new stores

An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation.

Demetrio Jackson was desperate for medical help when the paramedics arrived. The 43-year-old was surrounded by police who arrested him after responding to a t