Now Starting a Pool on the Racial Backgrounds of the Victims

DeKalb County police killed a suspect they were chasing early Tuesday, marking the department's 10th fatal shooting this year.

The toll is more than three times the number of fatal shootings by police in all of last year in the county of 700,000 residents. It also exceeds the seven so far this year in New York City. Los Angeles had report nine fatal shootings by police as of September. . . .

The four officers involved in the shooting will be placed on routine administrative leave while the shooting is investigated, Gagnon said.

The operative word, here, being "routine."