THE NYPD WANTS YOU TO KNOW IT'S SHOOTING FEWER PEOPLE THAN YOU THINK

Last year, eyewitnesses were certain that 16-year-old Kimani Gray was unarmed when two plainclothes officers shot him seven times in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. But the officers alleged that Gray pointed a .38-caliber Rohm's industry revolver at them.

Aggrieved family members demanded justice. Protests were held. Riots ensued. No one was indicted.

This year, Gray is anonymously listed among the eight people shot dead by cops in 2013, according to the New York Police Department's annual firearms discharge report (the report includes scenario-specific details for each case, which is how the Voice was able to determine which sections referred to Gray). The number of police-gunfire fatalities last year matched 2010's total as the lowest since the agency began keeping records in 1971.

The report adds that all eight "subjects" had arrest histories prior to the shooting incidents and that two (including Gray) were intoxicated at the time of their confrontations. And this total number of people shot and killed by police officers in 2013 dropped by half, from 16, in 2012.

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