This is a follow-up to Lookout's link about an article on Copspeak:

6 Elements of Police Spin: An Object Lesson in Copspeak

The linguistic gymnastics needed to report on police violence without calling up images of police violence is a thing of semantic wonder. Officers don’t shoot, they are merely “involved” in shootings; victims are not victims, but “suspects” “fleeing”; human beings become premortem cadavers as bullets “enter the torso” rather than the chest of a person; guns and bullets act on their own as they “discharge” or “enter the right femur,” rather than being fired by autonomous individuals with agency and purpose. Headlines become 14-word, jargon-heavy tangles where a simple five-word description would suffice.

https://fair.org/home/6-elements-of-police-spin-an-object-lesson-in-cops...

Here are eight use of force policies that have been proven effective in reducing homicides by cops:

Require officers to de-escalate situations before resorting to force.

Limit the kinds of force that can be used to respond to specific forms of resistance.

Restrict chokeholds.

Require officers to give a verbal warning before using force.

Prohibit officers from shooting at moving vehicles.

Require officers to exhaust all alternatives to deadly force.

Require officers to stop colleagues from exercising excessive force.

Require comprehensive reporting on use of force.

These policies actually have a win/win result for cops and the community:

Samuel Sinyangwe, one of the study’s researchers and authors, told the Intercept that few departments have implemented all or most of these policies, partly due to “resistance from police unions that claim more restrictive policies will endanger officers.”

On the contrary, the Campaign Zero study showed that the numbers of officers assaulted or killed in the line of duty decreased in proportion with the number of regulations adopted by their department.

http://projectcensored.org/24-eight-use-force-policies-prevent-killings-...

Now a round-up of 2017. According to this Newsweek story there were 964 fatal shootings by cops in 2017:

WHO WAS KILLED BY POLICE IN 2017? MORE PEOPLE DIED FROM OFFICER SHOOTINGS DESPITE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT

The article includes five of the most notorious fatal shootings by cops:

http://www.newsweek.com/who-killed-police-2017-760870

So far this year American cops have gunned down 100 victims that we know of:

Fatal Force: 100 people have been shot and killed by police in 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2...

Do Los Angeles cops intentionally target mentally ill people?

More than a third of people shot by L.A. police last year were mentally ill, LAPD report finds

And just because a victim makes it all the way to jail safely does not mean they are out of harms way:

The report also noted a sharp jump in the number of in-custody deaths, which rose to a dozen in 2015 compared with four the year before. Police said at least half of those incidents involved someone who, according to toxicology tests, was under the influence of drugs.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-use-of-force-report-201...

The L.A. County Attorney is not aggressively prosecuting homicide by cop:

No cops charged in six fatal police shootings: DA declines filing

In addition to the usual Copspeak justifications provided by the D.A., this comment stands out:

The prosecution’s memorandum notes that many of the facts that Hernandez described were “corroborated by other witnesses at the scene” and that some witnesses “perceived the encounter between Morad and Hernandez as a dangerous one in which Hernandez would arguably have been justified in believing he was in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury at the time he fired his weapon.”

Other witnesses described a “different type of encounter,” including a fire captain and a firefighter who said they did not believe Morad was being aggressive, according to the document.

https://mynewsla.com/government/2017/09/12/no-cops-charged-in-six-fatal-...

To give the devil her due, Jackie Lacey's office is tracking fatal police shootings since 2016. Here is the barebones list for 2017:

http://da.co.la.ca.us/reports/ois