ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said an Anchorage officer’s repeated involvement in shootings can be explained by shift timing and specialized assignment — factors he said increase the likelihood an officer will be sent to high-risk calls.
Case made comments Friday, as well as last month, when asked about Officer Jacob Jones, who has been involved in four officer-involved shootings since 2024.
“I certainly do appreciate the question and the perspective of the public,” Case said. “We’ve seen from our 15-year study that about two-thirds of our incidents occurred during the middle of the night,” he said previously — the same time of day Jones works…