From PressTV
County officials are looking into an almost 70% spike in fatal officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles County but said it’s too early to tell what, if anything, drove the jump.
Fifty-four people were fatally shot by police in 2011, according to autopsy reports analyzed by The Times, an increase all the more notable because it occurred at a time when the number of homicides in the area fell to historic lows.
With 612 people killed in the county last year, nearly 1 in every 10 such deaths occurred at the hands of law enforcement officers.
