How do cities’ police homicide rates compare? Question spotlights limits of U.S. data Since 1985, police in North Charleston, S.C., have recorded four “justifiable homicides” in which a felon was killed by an officer, according to FBI data. All those killed were male. Two were white, two black. But how does that number (as compiled by criminologist James Alan Fox at Northeastern University) compare with other cities of […]