City lawyers have denied one alderman’s request to see the names of more than 600 police officers who logged the most complaints from residents. But now other aldermen say they’d like to see the list, too. Many of those officers are patrolling Chicago’s black neighborhoods.

Some say fatal shootings could have been prevented if the Chicago Police Department kept better watch over its officers.

A study shows that people often associate black men with violence.

Police shootings occurred in black suburbs at twice the rate of white suburbs.

Accountability and training help cut the number of fatal shootings drastically.

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Nearly two-thirds of fatal police shootings happened in black and Latino community areas, and lower-income areas saw more shootings than more affluent ones.

From 2000 to 2005, Phoenix residents were more than twice as likely to be shot and killed by police than those in Chicago and about five times more likely than those in Los Angeles or New York, which had the highest number of fatal police shootings—74.

The City of Chicago paid more than $7 million in settlements of wrongful death suits for fatal police shootings filed during the period from 2000 to August 2007.

The percentage of black shooting victims was higher than the percentage of black people in the population in each of America’s 10 largest cities from 2000 to 2005.