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City or municipal law enforcement officers accounted for nearly two-thirds (60.7 percent) of all shooting incidents in 2022. Disturbance calls (49 incidents) and traffic stops. incidents and resulted in 111 officers shot. (43 incidents) accounted for 35 percent of all shooting.
Jan 8, 2024 · In 2023, 139 killings (11%) involved claims a person was seen with a weapon; 107 (9%) began as traffic violations; 100 (8%) were mental health or welfare checks; 79 (6%) were domestic disturbances;...
Sep 5, 2019 · In the United States, police officers fatally shoot about three people per day on average, a number that’s close to the yearly totals for other wealthy nations. But data on these deadly...
Jan 6, 2023 · In 2021, police killed 1,145 people; 1,152 in 2020; 1,097 in 2019; 1,140 in 2018; and 1,089 in 2017. The earliest data goes back to 2013, when journalists and racial justice advocates began...
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.
Only minor (4.2% on average across all years) discrepancies exist between the data TJI collected and what is reported in the OAG reports (Fig. 1). More than half of all officer-involved shootings occurred in the most populous Texas coun- ties: Harris, Bexar, Dallas, Tarrant, and Travis (Fig. 2).
Feb 9, 2022 · Police shot and killed at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the highest total since The Washington Post began tracking fatal shootings by officers in 2015 — underscoring the difficulty...
