Anchorage’s fatal police shootings increased since 2000, Daily News analysis shows

Anchorage police have shot and killed 34 people in roughly the past quarter-century, with more than half of the fatal police encounters occurring in the last eight years. That’s according to an analysis by the Anchorage Daily News that comes amid a spate of such police shootings so far this year, the tally currently at four fatalities, tied with 2016 as the most in recent memory.

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