Albuquerque police: A history of violence | Fault Lines
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Since 2010, police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have shot 40 people, 27 of whom have died from their injuries. For a city of just 550,000 people, Albuquerque now has the highest rate of fatal shootings by police in the US, eight times that of the police in New York City and nearly double that of Chicago’s police department. In early 2014, police officers killed James Boyd, a homeless man with a history of schizophrenia. His killing, caught on an officer’s body camera, sparked national outrage over police brutality, and two officers are facing murder charges for the fatal shooting. It’s the first time in decades that an Albuquerque police department […]