Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The number of police-involved lethal force incidents in the U.S. dropped 24% from 2021 to 2023, according to research from the Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The Cline Center's SPOTLITE project has compiled nearly a decade's worth of data to track and identify police uses of lethal force across the U.S. The SPOTLITE dataset is the most comprehensive nationwide acco