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More than 1,000 people died at the hands of law enforcement in 2022 and wide racial disparities persisted among those deaths. One of those killed last year was Amir Locke, who was shot by police in Minneapolis executing a no-knock warrant. John Yang spoke with Locke's mother about her experience and looks at where policing in America goes from here.

Crimes such as aggregated assault, rape and robbery were down from the previous year.

BATON ROUGE - The mother of a 22-year-old who was killed by a driver during a police pursuit in 2020 has filed suit against the four sheriffs offices that took part in the chase. 

BATON ROUGE - The lawyer behind a lawsuit filed over a high-speed pursuit left two people dead is trying to get the case back in front of a judge after a similar situation left two innocent girls dead this past weekend.

Atlanta's affluent Buckhead neighborhood has more recently become known as a hot spot for crime - but it's dropping.

Racial disparities in incarceration have fallen.

Disparities between Black and white state imprisonment rates are continuing to decline, but at a slower rate than in previous years, according to a report recently released by the Council on Criminal Justice.

Word spreads that the suspects in two violent attacks there this month had been released from prison before serving their full sentences for prior convictions.

"People are drawn to the attention," Thaddeus Johnson, a senior fellow with the Council on Criminal Justice, told Newsweek.

ATLANTA — Guns in Georgia’s public schools are on the rise.