The number of fatal shootings by officers has increased from 465 in the first six months of last year to 491 for the same period this year, said a Washington Post study. This year has also seen more officers shot and killed in the line of duty and more officers prosecuted for questionable shootings. Two years after a white police officer shot and killed a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., the pace of fatal shootings has risen slightly. A Post database shows a 6 percent increase in the number of such deaths in the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period last year. Blacks continued to be shot at 2.5 times the rate of whites. Also, more of the shootings were captured on video, from 76 to 105 in the first half of each year.

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