Overview: While less than 2% of police-involved homicides result in criminal charges, more than 280 police officers are or have served prison sentences for excessive use of force. The number has been ticking up steadily over the last decade.

(WIB) – In 2020, when Louisville police gunned down Breonna Taylor during a botched raid, the incident helped galvanize the ascendant Black Lives Matter movement. Along with the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, Taylor’s killing spurred outrage and pushed nationwide police reform tantalizingly close to reality.

How times have changed.

Five years after she was shot to death, the only officer convicted for his role in the raid that killed Taylor was sentenced to roughly three years in federal prison. But the Department of Justice under Presid

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