Tampa Bay Times

In 2014, Tampa Bay Times reporter Ben Montgomery had a question: how many times do police shoot people in Florida? Getting answers wasn’t easy. Montgomery talks about his investigation: Why Cops Shoot.

Shootings by police have dominated the news nationwide in the past several years. But there are no national statistics on who got shot and who did the shooting.

Last week, the Tampa Bay Times published a scathing indictment of Governor Rick Scott and his handling of Florida Department of Law Enforcement commissioner Gerald Bailey's so-called resignation. It's no secret that the FDLE is not Scott's best friend in general, especially considering the long list of Scott scandals that the agency is assigned to investigate. Most recently, Scott has been accused – with evidence – of using private email accounts to conduct public business. That, of course, is something that the FDLE has been investigating.