In 2011, New York City police officers shot and killed 9 suspects and injured 19 more, the second-lowest annual toll in recent city history, according to a Police Department report.

The report concluded that the experiences of the 62 officers last year who fired at suspects demonstrated that �restraint is the norm� in police shootings. In those 36 separate encounters, more than two-thirds of the officers involved fired five or fewer shots. And more than a quarter fired only a single shot, the report stated. In none of the episodes did the police officers reload.

The 82-page document, known as the annual firearms discharge report, is a compendium of statistics, analyzing everything from shooting stance (60 percent of officers reported firing while standing, while 31 percent of the officers said they fired while moving or struggling with a suspect) to the distances between officers and their targets (53 percent of officers reported that their adversary was less than 15 feet away).

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