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Yes — legally, ICE agents can be held criminally and civilly responsible, but the path to accountability is narrow and politically fraught: state prosecutors have the authority to bring charges for st...
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...
The available reporting shows that a Special January 1982 grand jury in produced a broad investigative report (the “Report of the ”) but publicly accessible summaries are sparse, and contemporary news...
Available reporting shows that independent documentation—video footage or court records—exists for some high-profile shootings by ICE and Border Patrol since 2017, but no source in the provided report...
’s deadly‑force statute requires that an objectively reasonable officer, based on the totality of circumstances known at the time and without hindsight, believe deadly force is necessary to prevent de...
Use-of-force investigators reviewing shootings involving vehicles focus on whether the agent reasonably perceived an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury and whether deadly force was the ...
Synchronized, multi-angle video analysis has repeatedly reshaped investigations of high-profile police shootings by clarifying timelines, revealing spatial relationships, and challenging first impress...
Municipal bans on firing at moving vehicles have, over decades and across large-city departments, been associated in reporting and scholarly review with reductions in civilian deaths and bystander ris...