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today, criminal charges against officers are still rare. according to data kept by a research team led my stinson, a criminal justice professor at bowling green state university, 21 officers have been charged this year with murder or manslaughter in connection with an on-duty shooting. while that figure is increased from 2020, when 16 officers were charged, and the highest analysis total since 2005, it remains small next to the roughly 1,100 people a year who are killed by the police in america. quote, it seems to be business as usual, mr. stinson said. it s very, very difficult to make systemic change. so i want to come back to your point about why this verdict is a game changer. does that is the nature of this verdict and the implications of it, does it make it easier for there to be systemic change on this front? you know, john, what it makes it easier is going to come down to what different people choose to do, prosecutors and jurors in different jurisdictions, but let s go bac