gun deaths

Outside Looking In: What Former Officers Think Could Improve Policing

Madelyn Beck

This is the fifth story in the Mountain West News Bureau series " Elevated Risk ," a project powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative....

Ywhna Bin Wahid, left, and Baleigh Sampson helped organized a Black Lives Matter protest in Moses Lake, Wash., in June.

Politics and Policy

'Talking People Into Handcuffs': One Western Town Offers Lessons In Good Policing

Nate Hegyi

This is the fourth story in the Mountain West News Bureau series " Elevated Risk ," a project powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative....

Canadians Are Much Less Likely To Be Killed By Police. Gun Laws Are A Big Reason Why.

Erin Collins

This is the third story in the Mountain West News Bureau series " Elevated Risk ," a project powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative. A...

Cole Stump was 29 years old when he was shot and killed by Billings police in October. According to the department, he pulled a gun during a struggle with officers.

A Montana Family Speaks Out About Police Violence Against Indigenous People

Savannah Maher

This is the second story in the Mountain West News Bureau series " Elevated Risk ," a project powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative....

A still image from Salt Lake City Police Department body camera footage from September 2020. The person in the image, a 13-year-old boy with autism who police believed might have been armed, would be shot moments later. The boy was unarmed.

Public Health

Mountain West Has The Highest Rate Of People Killed By Police In The Nation

Nate Hegyi

This is the first story in the Mountain West News Bureau series " Elevated Risk ," a project powered by America Amplified , a public radio initiative....

Demonstrators raise their arms and chant, "Hands up, don't shoot," in August 2014 as they protest the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo.

U.S. Headlines

Fatal Police Shootings Of Unarmed Black People Reveal Troubling Patterns

Cheryl W. Thompson

Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black people nationwide. The majority of officers were white, and for at least 15 of them, the shootings weren't their first or last.

Mountain West Leads The Nation In Fatal Encounters With Police

Mountain West News Bureau

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2021 Kate Concannon, Mountain West News Bureau Managing Editor: 425-765-4805 kateconcannon@boisestate.edu BOISE, IDAHO...

A graphic that reads a quote from Misty Vaughan Allen

Public Health

There Are More Gun-Related Suicides Than Homicides In Nevada

Anh Gray

In the U.S., more than half of the nearly 40,000 gun-related deaths in 2017 were from suicides, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…