Amber Guyger Fallout: How Common Is Police Crime?
The federal government doesn’t track incidents, but I do.
by Philip M. Stinson
Sep 11, 2018
3 minutes
In the latest shooting to outrage the nation, Amber Guyger, an off-duty Dallas police officer, claims she walked into the wrong apartment in the building where she lives and pointed her gun at Botham Shem Jean, thinking that he was an intruder. Guyger then shot and killed Jean. By all accounts, Jean was doing nothing wrong. He was simply at home minding his own business.
As a country, we used to ignore police crime. That changed in August
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