This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Holland and Josh McCullough

tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest.

Murder in the Rain contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised.

We had all hoped, perhaps with naive hearts, that the brutal murder of George Floyd, the

protests that followed, and the new expectations surrounding inclusion and anti-racism by

the woke crowd would have meant the killing of Americans, especially of color, by police,

sort of lessened if not been nearly eradicated.

Sadly, predictably, 2022 saw a record number of police involved killings.

Already in 2023, there seems to have been a rash of incidents.

One killing in Tacoma, Washington, was lost to the news cycle and the sheer number of incidents.

Today, in part one of two, I'll be talking about just a few of the multiple officer

involved shootings so far this year.

Next week, I'll tell the story of a manual Ellis and his beating death from the spring of 2020.

According to policescorecard.org, which is an amazing resource, by the way, they use

data from police and sheriff's offices creating the website to share their findings.

There's basically a thesis with the topics of police continue to hide substantial amounts

of data from the public, policing differs substantially depending on where you live, police

are making fewer arrests for low level offenses, as arrests decline, racial disparities persist,

black communities are more heavily policed, and 79% of jurisdictions increased police funding

from 2013 to 2020.

And Emily, you'll love this.

There are maps showing your area and the police departments therein.

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