There were two separate incidents this past week in Hartford in which police shot suspects. On Monday Joseph H. Bak was killed in the Firebox parking lot on Broad Street after a crime spree that ended with him allegedly threatening police with a knife. The police involved have reportedly been placed on “administrative” duty. And on Friday night a man in the same neighborhood (Russ and Hungerford) was shot during an attempted drug bust. He has been treated for injuries at a hospital. A man shot by police in East Haven last night died from those injuries. Today, Courant columnist Tom Condon wrote about another case of a person killed by local police.

This comes days after the release of the Pew Center report that states 1 in 99 American adults are in prison; that number increases sharply if looking at racial and ethnic minority populations.

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