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Following a Staten Island grand jury's decision on Dec. 3, 2014 to not indict the officer involved in the death of Eric Garner, the New York Daily News set out to determine just how often NYPD officers had suffered criminal repercussions for killing another person. With protests mounting, the demand for answers in our community was great. The newspaper marshaled its projects team, two senior courts reporters and a police reporter to answer this key question as quickly as possible. The paper's findings — that NYPD officers had killed at least 179 people while on duty over the past 15 years, and that indictments had been brought in just three cases, leading to one conviction and no jail time — stunned the city and became an integral part of the larger debate over how these cases should be prosecuted.