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Salt Lake police fired more than 130 shots in 18 months. Where did those rounds end up?
Salt Lake City police officers fired at least 130 bullets in the line of duty over 18 months in 2022 and the first six months of 2023, more than half during a single shootout with a man who had carjacked a vehicle at gunpoint.
The figure comes from counting the number of shots listed on a statistical report the Salt Lake City Police Department provided to the Deseret News in response to a public records request for all incidents in which an officer discharged a firearm on the job for any reason from Jan. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023. It also comes from news stories, critical incident reviews and police body-worn camera video of officer-involved shootings.
In the majority of cases, the gun was used to put down an injured animal: a deer 20 times and an elk and a fox once each, as well as one unidentified animal. The report listed four officer-involved critical incidents, which typically involve use of force, but did not give any details. The vast majority of all rounds were fired in those four incidents. In two cases, officers accidentally discharged their weapons at home.
In the snowy canyons of the mountains near Brigham City, Riverdale police found a missing foreign exchange student camping in a tent with no heat source.
The teenager disappeared from his host family’s home and went to the mountains. “We believed the victim was isolating himself at the direction of the cyber kidnappers in a tent,” Riverdale police said. His parents who live in China told the police, “they had transferred approximately $80,000 U.S. dollars to bank accounts in China due to continuous threats from the kidnappers.”
Riverdale police believe the teen to be the victim of a crime known as cyber kidnapping. As artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, cyber kidnappings are one area where AI could potentially have a damaging effect.
Read more about cyber kidnapping and how to protect yourself.
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