LAPD shootings examined

Los Angeles police are drawing their guns less often than last year. But when they do, they're killing more criminal suspects than before, according to an LAPD report released Tuesday. Rachel Uranga in the Daily News.

In the first quarter of the year, police killed 12 suspects - twice the number of suspects killed over the same period last year.

Still, the number of officer-involved shootings in the period fell to 15 from 18.

"We are still trying to put some context to this and figure out why," Capt. Kris Pitcher, head of the LAPD's Force Investigation Division, told the civilian Police Commission. "There are so many factors involved, you can't attribute it to one particular issue."