Scott D. Pierce: Local news must stop using the term ‘officer-involved’

On Sept. 21, KUTV-Channel 2 began a report with this sentence: “So far this year, Salt Lake County has seen 14 officer-involved shootings.” Which meant — what? Did officers shoot 14 people, or were 14 officers shot?The report went on to make it clear that officers did the shooting, but why use the vague term at all? Why begin, as KSL-Channel 5 did on Jan. 8, with an even more vague statement about a “major police presence, swarming the area of an officer-involved critical