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Findings. Across all races and states in the USA, we estimate 30 800 deaths (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 30 300–31 300) from police violence between 1980 and 2018; this represents 17 100 more deaths (16 600–17 600) than reported by the NVSS.
Dec 5, 2022 · An overwhelming majority of the victims are male — over 95 percent. Explore the data. This database contains records of every person shot by an on-duty police officer since Jan. 1, 2015, as well...
- Washington Post Staff
- The State of Police Violence
- Cities Where Police Killings Are Most Common
- Racial Disparities in Police Violence
- Conclusion
- References
In the first eight years since the data from Mapping Police Violence became available, police in the U.S. killed more than 9,000 people, an average of about 1,095 per year or three people per day. Over the past five years, shootings were the most common cause of these deaths, with gunshotsaccounting for more than 9 in 10 deaths. Tasers, vehicles, a...
Zooming in on a city level, Los Angeles has seen the highest number of police killings over the past five years with 70. Phoenix comes second with 46, followed by Chicago with 45 people killed by police in the same time period. Los Angeles has a particularly grim history when it comes to police violence. The acquittal of five white police officers ...
At the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests after the murder of George Floyd were discrepancies between the rate at which police kill white people and the rate at which they kill Black people, Native Americans, and Hispanic people. Black Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population, but they account for more than 1...
While there’s room for debate over policy interventions that might limit the number of police killings, there’s inadequate accountability or scrutiny for these incidents. When police kill a civilian, the initial assumption by some is that the incident was justified, while others automatically assume it wasn’t. While the truth may be somewhere in be...
https://www.latimes.com/projects/los-angeles-police-killings-database/Jul 2, 2020 · According to Statistia in the U.S. there have been, “a total (of) 429 civilians ...shot, 88 of whom were Black, as of June 4, 2020. In 2018, there were 996 fatal police shootings, and in 2019 increased to 1004 (see Figure 1).
- Stephan A. Schwartz
- 10.1016/j.explore.2020.06.010
- 2020
- September-October 2020
Racial disparities. Black males comprise 6.1 percent of the total U.S. population but 24.9 percent of all persons killed by law enforcement. Explore the data on police shootings and injuries. Data sources. Facts and figures. Research and analysis.
From 1980 to 2018, more than 30,000 people have died by police violence in the United States, according to a 2021 article published in The Lancet. For 2022, Mapping Police Violence counted at least 1,176 individuals killed, making it the deadliest year on record.
Sep 30, 2021 · Researchers estimated that over the time period they studied, which roughly tracks the era of the war on drugs and the rise of mass incarceration, nearly 31,000 Americans were killed by the...
