NYPD: 72 officer involved shootings, 501 taser discharges in 2016

By Chris Eger

The New York City Police Department last week released its expanded use-of-force report for 2016, which includes both firearm and electrical weapon discharges for the first time.
As detailed in the 101-page report, the NYPD’s approximately 36,000 uniformed officers were involved in a total of 72 incidents of intentional firearms discharges resulting in 32 subjects shot, nine fatally. In return, one officer – Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo – was shot and killed and another 13 wounded while three committed suicide. About half of the incidents (37) were adversarial — against a potentially armed threat — while the other instances involved animal attacks (11) unintentional discharges (14) and unauthorized use or suicide attempts.
The numbers are an increase for a metropolis that saw 67 officer-involved shootings in 2015. Still, they are a far cry from 1971 when the city saw 12 officers and 93 subjects killed in over 800 recorded firearm incidents around the city.
In all, officers from the largest municipal police department in the nation fired 306 rounds in adversarial conflicts, a figure higher than in 2013 or 2014 but slightly down from 2015. Of those 70 officers who fired, about three out of four got off five rounds or fewer while six

Source: Guns.com