Posted On: November 7, 2007Originally published as part of the November, 2007 Issue
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.
Sources: Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune articles, analyzed by The Chicago Reporter; Supplemental Homicide Report, analyzed by Investigative Reporters and Editors
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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.
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.
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