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Police shootings in the Hudson Valley down despite high-profile lethal force cases

Officer Adam Eirand of the Greenwood Lake Police

Photo credit: John Meore | Officer Adam Eirand of the Greenwood Lake Police Department fires an AR-15 as police officers from around the area go through a two-week training course for instructors at the Rockland County Police Academy firing range in Haverstraw. (July 27, 2012)

Three high-profile police shootings in the Hudson Valley since November have sparked outrage in communities and calls for federal intervention after grand juries refused to indict the officers involved.

One family has charged that police used racial epithets before opening fire. Its lawyers have questioned whether the elite White Plains' police Neighborhood Conditions Unit is prone to needless...

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