A report from the Wisconsin Professional Police Association shows there were 16 fatal police shootings this year, including one in Two Rivers.
That represents a 23-percent increase from the 13 recorded in 2018. Eleven of the people killed by officers this year were white, three were black and two Hispanic.
Twenty-six of the 28 fatal and non-fatal police shootings involved a suspect who was armed.
Wisconsin is one of 34 states which doesn’t require its officers to train in how to de-escalate a situation.
