Klinger provided News 4 with a map that showed more than 200 police shootings in St. Louis City from 2002 through 2012. Most of those shootings occurred in higher crime, low-income, neighborhoods, most of which were predominantly African American neighborhoods in north St. Louis. There was also a significant percentage of police shootings in higher crimes areas in south St. Louis.News 4 also obtained records for shootings by St. Louis County police for the last 10 years and found a similar pattern. More police shootings occurred in north St. Louis County than other areas. St. Louis County officers shot four times as many African Americans than whites, even though African Americans make up only 25 percent of St. Louis County’s population.“It’s because blacks are unfortunately disproportionately involved in violent crime and police use of deadly force is tightly intermixed with deadly force in the community,” Klinger said.
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