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TIL in 2012 only 60 NYPD officers discharged their weapons.(0.17%) Of the 26,091 weapons arrest, 26,000 were completed without an officer firing their weapon. The race stats of the officers who discharged weapons almost directly matches the racial makeup of the NYPD.

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