Fatal Police Shootings la

• The number of suspects killed by police in Los Angeles County has risen nearly 70 percent in 2011 over the previous year. The Los Angeles Times reports Sunday (http://lat.ms/NpY7ry) that 54 people were killed by law enforcement in 2011 countywide.
(San Francisco Gate)
• County officials are looking into an almost 70% spike in fatal officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles County last The analysis also highlights the extreme, sudden dangers police can encounter in the field.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Police Chief Charlie Beck says the majority of shootings are legitimate responses to serious threats. He says police have become more adept at responding quickly to violent situations.
(Huffington Post)
• Among the findings: • All but six of the fatal shootings involved officers from either the Los Angeles Police Department or the countys Sheriff Department, which, taken together, patrol the vast majority of the countys roughly 10 million people.
(Los Angeles Times)
• Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck called the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old baby in Watts on Monday night an awful tragedy that has unsettled the departments highest ranks.
(Los Angeles Times)
• LAS VEGAS -- A man was in custody after a fatal shooting this morning in the on a sidewalk near Windmill Parkway and La Serna Street, just east of Eastern Avenue, Capt. Tom Roberts of Metro Police's South Central Area Command said.
(msnbc.com)
• New Orleans, La.- NOPD is investigating the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man and the shooting of a 19-year-old female that occurred in the 7900 block of Olive St. Sunday evening.
(FOX 8 News WVUE-TV)
• New Orleans, La. - Police are investigating a fatal shooting in the 1300 block of South Saratoga Street that killed a 21-year-old man just before midnight Saturday.
(FOX 8 News WVUE-TV)
• Ontario's police watchdog has cleared Constable Ryan Tocher in the shooting death of 27-year-old Phonesay Chanthachack but found not guilty in court following the May 2010 beating of Myanmar native Po La Hay during a botched drug raid.
(Hamilton Spectator)
• Details on the fatal Atlanta slaying emerged online this morning. Police identified the victim as Melvin Vernell III, a.k.a. Lil Phat, of Corbin Lake Court in Sandy Springs. A motive for the Thursday night shooting was not known. Police spokesman Capt.
(SOHH)