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5 gru 2022 · This database contains records of every person shot by an on-duty police officer since Jan. 1, 2015, as well as the agencies involved in each event.
- Policing in America
The latest news and analysis on policing in America. Among...
- Policing in America
2 mar 2015 · Police killed 40 Hispanic people per 1 million Hispanic people in the U.S. between 2013 and 2021. White. Police killed 30 White people per 1 million White people in the U.S. between 2013 and 2021. Asian. Police killed 10 Asian people per 1 million Asian people in the U.S. between 2013 and 2021.
Around 2015–2016, The Guardian newspaper ran its own database, The Counted, which tracked US killings by police and other law enforcement agencies including from gunshots, tasers, car accidents and custody deaths. They counted 1,146 deaths for 2015 and 1,093 deaths for 2016.
Mapping Police Violence collected data on more than 1,200 killings by police in 2023. We compiled this information from media reports, obituaries, public records, and databases like The Gun Violence Archive and the Washington Post.
1,126 people were killed by police in 2020. 96% were killed by police shootings. Tasers, physical force, and police vehicles accounted for most other deaths. Officers were charged with a crime in only 16 of these cases. One percent of all killings by police. 8 of these 16 cases had video evidence.
The Post is not tracking deaths of people in police custody, fatal shootings by off-duty officers or non-shooting deaths in this data set. The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention log fatal shootings by police, but officials acknowledge that their data is incomplete.
Mapping Police Violence is a research collaborative collecting comprehensive data on police killings nationwide to quantify the impact of police violence in communities. Police have killed 1,045 people in 2024.
