Cops and Shootings: Philadelphia Police Report Finds It's Not Quite Black and White

There's at least one reason Philadelphia police officers have been involved in a shooting every week, on average: The department has five separate policies on when the police can use force. And the shootings aren't all about race.

Those are among the findings of a Justice Department review of Philadelphia policing from 2007 to 2014, released on Monday. The review shows that 81 percent of suspects involved in the shootings were black. It also found that white suspects were involved in 49 percent of the cases in which an officer shot at an unarmed person, a “threat perception failure” caused by “toy guns, physical altercations, and accidental discharges that led to deadly force.”