By the numbers: Police-involved shootings in Jacksonville

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – With the debate about police-involved shootings escalating in the wake of Sunday's fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a police officer following a high-speed chase, the I-TEAM spent Tuesday combing through internal records to give a perspective of police shootings in Jacksonville over the last seven years.

From January 2009 through May 23, there have been 70 people shot by Jacksonville Sheriff's Office employees. Of those, all but eight were armed with a weapon.

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Of the 70 shot, 40 men and 1 woman were killed and 29 people were injured.  

Of those shot, 53 -- 76 percent -- were black males, 14 were white males, two were Hispanic males and one was a woman. Of those killed by officers, 28 -- or 68 percent -- were black, 11 were white men and one was a woman.

According to the 2010 census, 30 percent of the residents of Duval County are African-American.

The youngest person shot by an officer was 14 and the youngest killed was 16. The oldest person injured in a police-involved shooting was 65, while the oldest person killed was 59. 

Based on our records back to 1996, no Jacksonville officer has been criminally charged in a shooting, although three were reprimanded by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. 

In 2010, two officers resigned over a shooting on March 26, 2010, in which police fired 28 shots into a car after a bank robbery manhunt. Some of those bullets went into a car with a mother and child inside.

In 2012, an officer was fired, then later reinstated.