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In 2023, there were 1,164 fatal police shootings. Additionally, the rate of fatal police shootings among Black Americans was much higher than that for any other ethnicity, standing at 6.2...
- Basic Statistic People Shot to Death by U.S. Police 2015, by Race
This statistic shows the number of people shot to death by...
- Basic Statistic People Shot to Death by U.S. Police 2015, by State
In 2023, the U.S. police killed a total of 137 people in the...
- Basic Statistic People Shot to Death by U.S. Police 2015, by Gender
This statistic shows the number of people shot to death by...
- Basic Statistic People Shot to Death by U.S. Police 2015, by Race
Filter the Washington Post database, which includes police shooting statistics since January 2015, by unarmed police shootings, race and age of victim and more.
As of December 18, 282 Black people were killed by the police in the United States in 2023. This compares to 201 Hispanic people and 495 White people. The rate of police shootings of Black ...
Among Black Americans, the rate of fatal police shootings between 2015 and October 2024 stood at 6.2 per million of the population per year, while for white Americans, the rate stood at 2.4...
A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and Vanderbilt University found that an average of 1,769 people were injured annually in police shootings from 2015 to 2020, 55 percent of them or 979 people, fatally.
A 2020 study found "strong and statistically reliable evidence of anti-Black racial disparities in the killing of unarmed Americans by police in 2015–2016," [12] consistent with another 2020 study on racial disparities in the types of civilians shot and killed by U.S. police.
Stark inequities in the burden of police killings by race and ethnicity within the USA highlight the urgent need to address systemic racism within the US police force. The ability to accurately compare rates of deaths between countries is pivotal in addressing systematic issues across global policing systems.