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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 Post's 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.