What Next - The Toxic Combo Behind Colorado’s Police Shootings
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🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Colorado has one of the highest rates of officer involved shootings in the country. After looking at the data, reporters from Colorado Public Radio found that the problem is exacerbated by a complex mix of meth addiction, illegal firearms, and car theft.
Guest: Allison Sherry, Reporter for Colorado Public Radio
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| 0:00.0 | Can you tell me again about the spreadsheet? |
| 0:06.3 | Like, do you have it in front of you? |
| 0:07.2 | Do you have a computer with you? |
| 0:08.4 | I do. |
| 0:09.0 | I do have it in front of me. |
| 0:10.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:10.6 | Can you pull it up? |
| 0:12.2 | Yes. |
| 0:13.4 | Alice and Sherry is a reporter at Colorado Public Radio. |
| 0:16.7 | It sounds like you've just been like living your life in this spreadsheet for six months. |
| 0:21.8 | I have. I have. It's kind of weird, but it's cool. I'm proud of our work, so. |
| 0:30.1 | Alison is proud of the hours she's spent working on this spreadsheet, despite the fact that the data inside it is grim. |
| 0:40.2 | Each row represents a single person, and each person is the victim of an encounter with police that ended in gunfire. |
| 0:47.4 | More than half of the people listed there died. One of the most recent people listed in this spreadsheet is 19-year-old Devon Bailey. |
| 0:57.8 | He was killed just last year while running from the cops. |
| 1:02.1 | What started with an officer involved shooting on Saturday night led to a vigil on Sunday. |
| 1:08.0 | Black lives matter. |
| 1:09.6 | And protests on Monday. So the story. And protests on Monday. |
| 1:11.7 | So the story started there with our executive editor asking, |
| 1:16.9 | how often does this happen? |
| 1:18.2 | How often does someone run and get shot by cops in the back? |
| 1:21.3 | Justice for Devon! |
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