More than 60% of people shot and killed by New Hampshire police over the last decade had a mental illness, according to ‘Shots Fired,’ a Concord Monitor analysis published in 2021. Two years later, little has changed. Of the eight people shot and killed by police in New Hampshire since the analysis was published, five had a history of mental illness. (Illustration: Eric Turner)
Author Archives: Khadija Ahmed
Khadija Ahmed is a junior at Northwestern pursuing a BS in journalism and environmental sciences with a passion for environmental justice. Khadija is also part of the Medill Investigative Lab in Chicago and writes occasionally for The Daily Northwestern. She was recently chosen for this year’s cohort of the Environmental Justice Summer Scholars Program, a ten-week program sponsored by the University of Maryland, in College Park.
