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ByDonBabwin The Associated Press CHICAGO The number of U.S. police officers charged with murder or manslaughter for on- duty shootings has tri- pled this year — a sharp increase that at least one expert says could be the result of more video ev- idence. In the past, the annual average was fewer than five officers charged. In the final weeks of 2015, that number has climbed to 15, with 10 of the cases involving video. "If you take the cases with the video away, you are left with what we would expect to see over the past 10 years — about five cases," said Philip Stinson, the Bowling Green State University criminologist who com- piled the statistics from across the nation. "You have to wonder if there would have been charges if there wasn't video evi- dence." The importance of video was highlighted last week with the re- lease of footage showing a Chicago officer fatally shooting a teenager 16 times. The officer said he feared for his life from the teen, who was suspected of damaging cars using a small knife. He also had a powerful hallucinogen in his bloodstream. "This had all the trap- pings of a life-threaten- ing situation for a law-en- forcement officer — PCP- laced juvenile who had been wreaking havoc on cars with a knife," said Jo- seph Tacopina, a promi- nent New York defense at- torney and former prose- cutor who has represented several police officers. "Ex- cept you have the video that shows a straight-out execution." When he was charged with first-degree mur- der last week, officer Ja- son Van Dyke became the 15th officer in the coun- try to face such charges in 2015. Over the last decade, law-enforcement agencies have recorded roughly 1,000 fatal shootings by on-duty police. An aver- age of fewer than five each year resulted in murder or manslaughter charges against officers, Stinson found. Of the 47 officers charged from the begin- ning of 2005 through the end of last year, about 23 percent were convicted, Stinson found. LAW ENFORCEMENT More US police charged with murder in 2015 By Danica Kirka and Jim Heintz The Associated Press LONDON As British jets opened airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and Germany pre- pared to send troops and aircraft to the region, Rus- sia's president called on the world Thursday to brandish "one powerful fist" in the fight against terrorism. Yet even as international efforts to defeat the extrem- ists grew, animosity be- tween Russia and Turkey only intensified. Hours after Britain's Par- liament authorized military action in Syria, its Tornado warplanes struck oil fields in eastern Syria that help finance IS. "This strikes a very real blow at the oil and the revenue on which the Daesh terrorists depend," Defense Secretary Michael Fallon told the BBC, using the Arabic acronym for IS. Both the U.S.-led coali- tion and Russian warplanes have struck the extremists' oil facilities and Russia has drawn heated international attention to the issue by ac- cusing Turkish authorities of profiting from oil trade with IS — allegations Turk- ish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly de- nied. The Russian allegations came after last week's downing by Turkey of a Russian warplane near the Syria-Turkey border. Turkey insists the plane had vio- lated its airspace, but Rus- sia vehemently rejects that contention. Russian President Vlad- imir Putin, in his state- of-the-nation address, ac- cused Turkey of "a treacher- ous war crime" and bitingly suggested "Allah must have punished Turkey's ruling clique by depriving it of sense and reason." Putin also accused Wash- ington and its allies of turn- ing Iraq, Syria and Libya into a "zone of chaos and anarchy threatening the entire world" by supporting change of regimes in those countries. Germany on Thursday prepared to send recon- naissance aircraft to the Middle East as coalition forces stepped up efforts to fight the militants. In all, up to 1,200 German soldiers would be deployed to sup- port the international co- alition fighting the Islamic State group. Two Tornados and a tanker could be sent to Turkey's Incirlik air base next week if the German Parliament approves the mission Friday as expected. German Defense Minis- ter Ursula von der Leyen said the mission would have three components: to protect French naval op- erations, to provide intel- ligence though reconnais- sance aircraft and satellite observation, and to offer lo- gistical support like in-air refueling for allied planes. "The goal... is to fight and contain IS, and destroy their safe havens and their abil- ity to lead worldwide terror operations," she told report- ers in Berlin before heading to Ankara for talks with her Turkish counterpart. 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