As crime falls, police violence rises. And America still struggles to track it.

As crime falls, police violence rises. And America still struggles to track it.

Former Louisville police officer Brett Hankison was sentenced to 33 months in prison in July 2025 for violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman he shot and killed after officers executed a no-knock warrant at her home. Two months after Taylor was killed, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man accused of trying to pass off a counterfeit $20 bill, died under the knee of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Together, their…