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1972 NYPD Vehicle Shooting Policy

The 1972 policy change by the NYPD to restrict shooting at moving vehicles and its impact on police shootings and bystander harm.

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How did New York City’s 1970s ban on shooting at moving vehicles change policing outcomes?

New York City’s 1972 move to bar officers from firing at or from moving vehicles is widely credited with reducing bystanders struck by police gunfire and lowering deaths in police shootings, and it sp...