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Brickbat: Record-Breaking Year

Charles Oliver | 8.20.2018 4:00 AM

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Phoenix police have been involved in 31 shootings so far this year, matching a record set 2013. There were just 25 shootings by police in all of 2017. Officials are trying to figure out why the number of shootings has soared.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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