Hey everybody, Mary here with a quick announcement.

The wet next crew is on vacation for the holiday,

so we're going to re-air a couple of episodes from our archives today and tomorrow.

Today's show is one I've been thinking about a lot over the last few weeks.

It came to us from Colorado Public Radio Reporter Alison Sherry.

She wanted to understand police shootings in her state.

After a black man named Devon Bailey got killed back in 2019.

So she and some colleagues said about meticulously chronicling every death they could find,

trying to understand what went wrong and why.

And while race is a major focus of the protests against police brutality that are going on right now,

the data Alison compiled, it revealed how drugs and guns

play an important role in how police respond when confrontations escalate.

Okay, here's the show.

Can you tell me again about the spreadsheet?

Like, do you have it in front of you? Do you have a computer with you?

I do. I do have it in front of me. Yeah.

Can you pull it up? Yes.

Alison Sherry is a reporter at Colorado Public Radio.

It sounds like you've just been like living your life in this spreadsheet for six months.

I have. I have. It's kind of weird, but it's cool. I'm proud of our work, so.

Alison is proud of the hours she spent working on this spreadsheet,

despite the fact that the data inside it is grim.

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